waiting for spring

by Burt Rashbaum

Crows and snow

a tethered world

monochromatic

static, white noise

of sight like floaters,

skittery images through

flakes the size of quarters,

and feathered balls of birds

sitting it out on sugared pines.

The lines of the telephone 

poles, disappearing,

six crows walking

in the parking lot, like

notes on a staff making

song, and then flight

to alight on a naked

aspen, awaiting spring,

to scare as one

and take off into a

distance that erases

itself with the brush

of falling snow.

Burt Rashbaum’s publications are Of the Carousel (The Poet’s Press, 2019), and Blue Pedals (Editura Pim, 2015, Bucharest). His poems have been anthologized in XY Files (Sherman Asher Publishing, 1997), The Cento (Red Hen Press, 2011), Art in the Time of Covid-19 (San Fedele Press, 2020), A 21st Century Plague: Poetry from a Pandemic (University Professors Press, 2021), American Writers Review: Turmoil and Recovery (San Fedele Press, 2021), and most recently, The Antonym literary review (2022). His fiction has appeared in Caesura, Meet Cute Press #2, and Typeslash Review.