SWIRLING BLUE when to bend to blend to ripen – careful absorption a secondary theme – combines a new song – SING rain slips cold stone wrapped – cherished by the wind prairie snow is cold in greengrey eyes – that line the road melt – in your hand your heart to slip away lost songs die at the side of the road left to – line wisps of blue spilling blue swirl above your head small trace patterns in the snow and look – an angels bed