After The Warrior Song, from FIREDAYS, Book V

After The Warrior Song

This loud and spoiled land,

With snow-covered cars,

    cold crystal puddles,

Deep clusters of waste ground,

    metals, and ash,

The home of vultures,

    ravens, juncos, and wrens,

With carob nights and

   shadows of a pale moon –

I will not be separated

    from this or you.