POET

I am
song and singer,
both the dance and dancer;
upon this barren branch - I am
the leaf.

Karina Klesko

Demoralizing Days

Winter
foil shimmers
in the jeweler's loupe,
frost facets clinging to diamond
foxfire.

Soddenl
like a shawl on grieving shoulders,
this desolate landscape
even deeper
rhiza.

Karina Klesko

Birth of a Poet

Spiders,
warts & wings --
alchemy of love wrapped
in a cocoon --alone, waiting
for spring

(a budding writer could not emerge from his chrysalis too soon --William Du Bois)
Karina Klesko