Today
the clouds
are a mountain range
across the sky
close to me
a plum tree
with cloven trunk
tortuous,
the last tree
to blossom
your white flowers
are dancing
in defiance
the black clouds
spit their rain
ever harder
but to us,
brothers and sisters,
it is life
Dennis Tomlinson has had many poems published in Blithe Spirit, Lunar Poetry, Time Haiku, other small magazines and anthologies and on the websites Ink, Sweat and Tears and Shot Glass Journal, inter alia. He lives in London