doxology from a walk between thundershowers 
during the coronavirus lockdown
[mind filled with Faure’s Requiem]

o winds
o winds contagious
bring

blight in maple
spring
savagery on crabapple

six mortuary crows 
fastened in blank branches
half-notes dancing on a staff

o winds
in omen
come portend

libera me Domine 
welcome us 
ice pellet pelted

beestung fingertips
who dash into your 
doorways

hurry home young mother
red cheek rag doll
child held to breast

shout for your dear life
beloved brother
ventilator isolate

now comes sunlight 
rainbow
in paradisum 

dedicant agneli in tuo