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Representative Poetry Online, edition 6.0, is a web anthology of 4,800 poems in English and French by over 700 poets spanning 1400 years. more about RPO
Afternoons in May
1The light closes its tiny fist.
2The trees put up their old ladders.
3Spring is coming with both its eyes closed,
4stumbling against brick. Suddenly its left hand
5is found on my living room floor.
6Quebec is burning too.
7The roads between here and Ontario are green
8with talking buds.
9Huge planks of sunlight maze the roads.
10Oh, it is beautiful to be here.
11On this side of Toronto the lake is seething
12with promises to itself.
13There is a tree on my very own desk.
14Small faces appear, like leaves.
15I stare and stare.
16Behind me, life is beginning to make more sense.
17As the small man in rags goes singing down the street.
