April 2016
/Emergence
by Barbara Lydecker Crane
From specks of eggs inert a year
and forest floors gray-brown and seer,
beetle legs creep.
Past pebbles ground by sea to sand
and seaweed fronds by current fanned,
silver scales leap.
In winds that swell and buffet seas,
through April lace of branching trees,
white wings sweep.
The seasons, sun and sea are skeins
that weave new life from roots and veins
and unseen sources deep.
Zero Gravitas and ALPHABETRICKS are Barbara Lydecker Crane’s chapbooks, available on Amazon. She has published over 100 poems–humorous or serious (or sometimes both)– in poetry journals and anthologies, including recent or forthcoming work in Atlanta Review, First Things, Light and Parody.