Spring Grist

by Rebecca Hoogs

Heart mills
river
flow, silt
and sieves

off grind
and go
to wind
May’s pole

with rib,
ribbons,
with fibs,
fable.

The ends?
Foam, fray.

Rebecca Hoogs is associate director of Writers in the Schools, a program of Seattle Arts & Lectures. E-mail: rhoogs@u.washington.edu