I am East Coast dreaming, in
this place where the leaves are drifting free
and the trees are rendered bare and hungry
Starving for the coming rains
The Atlantic is caught in the wind
and we all smell its lovers in the air
And down by the river
I know,
I could spill my soul on its banks
Write sonnets in the mud
Cross the surfacing rocks
and they would sing
for only me
In the fields, the flowers are at war
They waltz and tango
It is their romance, this wind
All is well, in the rustle of movement
Here, in my Virginia