Abrahamic
On this last eve
of spring you uncover
shapes of angels
dancing in the fallen dusk
entries from a lost
concordance cast
out from winking
eyes of branches
against the sky.
You’re on edge
like a man unscathed
in his leveled house—
the calm within
an ember of the sun
portends how far
your fatherhood
will be tested
Max Roland Ekstrom is a Vermont-based poet whose work appears frequently in journals and online. Look out for him in the anthology Except for Love: New England Poets Inspired by Donald Hall, forthcoming from Encircle Publications.