After Yeats
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Prairie Schooner 77.3 (2003) 167
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After Yeats
Don Welch
Coole Park, Ireland
As the heads of the grasses
bent themselves in prayer,
the wind whispered rooms
only swans were used to.There, where the sun riddled
our fingers and opposable thumbs,
the swans circled above us
in their tockless clocks,and we could only send them
petitions of a single wing,
half a prayer, our palms
liftless, full of measly air.
Don Welch is a retired professor of English and philosophy at the University of Nebraska, Kearney. His most recent book is The Alley Poems (Lone Willow P, 2002).
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