| InterBoard Poetry Competition | |
ON FINDING TRILLIUMS
Kathy Paupore
(Wild Poetry Forum)
She walks the woods along the road,
the air is cold, rain comes and goes.
There at the base of the pine, a glimpse.
The wait has been short or long, depends
on your perception of time and its demands.
That tease of white could be a scrap
of birch bark, discarded paper, a patch
of snow. Other ephemerals have come
and gone, most too quickly, unless
you watch for their bloom. Maybe these two
were here yesterday, but she walked
this same path, saw no signs. Perhaps the leaves
were close on the ground, tiny buds still green.
Today they must be taller, three leaves
open, white petals curved back to drink rain.
Judge Aaron Welborn’s comments: “The careful construction of this poem reflects the fineness of the situation it describes: that moment of discovering something so delicate, so ephemeral, and so minute, chances are that no one else will ever know about it. How to hold on to something so fragile? With a poem.”
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