Two Poems

Poetry by Angela Arnold

being the apple tree

swayswaysway

sway right in there

spin round and roundround

the airy middle of a green-flashing crown

            spin amid that dancing host of like

            spinning spirits and sway  

            sway with the whole sway of it 

in the wind of ages

seed to root

to sapling to this:

the trunk of heaven

            and the yield of branches

the too ready fruit

being it           all the way

glimpse

a flare of brown/orange and

            gone

flutter of an all-time favourite

            (pretty sure)

at this time of year usually found

            haunting brambles:

basking on the whiteness of trusses

            arching with promise

it startled into view

            like a flash

of laid-aside maybes – 

            hopeful alternatives

to the too many prickly nows

            barren tomorrows

the too many glimpses

            and gones

the orange heat of it still

            glowing

in these dull-leaved thickets

            still promising

just possibly

            a whole year

BIO: Angela Arnold is a writer, poet, and artist. Her poems have appeared widely in print magazines (eg Green Ink, Madrigal, Door=Jar, Abridged) and anthologies, as well as online (eg The Fig Tree, the engine idling, HU, Leon Lit Review), both in the UK and elsewhere. First collection: In Between (Stairwell Books, 2023) and her second collection is forthcoming with Poetry Lighthouse. She lives in Wales. Twitter/X @AngelaArnold777 ; angelaarnold777.bsky.social