Light and After

<p>Beneath the bare trees </p><p>stripped to sky and </p><p>smelling of dust two old </p><p>hands hold fold and refold</p><p> a thin sheet of earth. </p><p>'Where is the wind? And</p><p>why is the wind never</p><p>a tree anymore?' the hands ask </p><p>folding. 'The bare branches </p><p>of the bare trees no longer </p><p>hold anything. All falls </p><p>through the thin earth. </p><p>Why even the sky' the hands </p><p>say 'has dropped all of </p><p>its clouds.' Kobus</p>