poems for a stormy night...

"A Single Seed Reveals Them"
An apple on the table
hides its seeds
so neatly
under seamless skin.

But we talk and talk and talk
to let somebody
in.

~Naomi Shihab Nye from 19 Varieties of Gazelle


Or how about:

"Jerusalem Headlines 2000"
HOLY LAND EXPERIENCES BIGGEST SNOWFALL IN 50 YEARS

If someone's lemon tree
disappears under a drift

If your auto with the blue license plates
your goat or my aged donkey
If the clay jar in which your mother
hauled water for sixty years

If the snow piles up past everyone's windows
all of the windows

PALESTINIANS AND ISRAELIS WORKED TOGETHER
IN THE WEST BANK TO RESCUE...

a sweeter sentence than baklava

than all the oranges of Jericho
offered up to God!

~Naomi Shihab Nye from 19 Varieties of Gazelle