Birmingham
Poetry
Review
Evening Thunder
"Even His thunder is the refuge of the poor."
—Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island
A dim blue flicker at the horizon.
The wind picks up from the west;
it turns the pale backs of the maple leaves
and pricks the white crests of the river.
The rain will roll in soon. Silent, for once,
the crows fly up to their hillside roosts.
Children leave off playing in the yard.
And the riverbank squatters
tighten the tarps of their scrap-wood shelters.
--Michael Henson
Michael Henson is author of Ransack, a novel, A Small Room With Trouble on My Mind, stories, The Tao of Longing, poems, and, most recently, Crow Call, an extended elegy for the homeless activist Buddy Gray.
