One Leaf Rides the Wind (Monday Poem)

by Celeste Davidson Mannis


One leaf rides the wind.
Quick as I am, it's quicker!
Just beyond my grasp.


One leaf rides the wind.
Quick as I am, it's quicker!
I reach for the sky.



from One Leaf Rides the Wind: Counting in a Japanese Garden
by Celeste Davidson Mannis
2002, Viking