WHITE LILAC
			
			
			
			orchard oriole in noon song and light
must have been telling and the wind led on
			to a cemetery height and bloom of
			white lilac
			                                      
			take some with you to offer
			                    
			man in the grave
			might have been telling but
			no one moved to and the prairie remained
			full in it and the wind ran on again
			                                      
			you have part of my dark
			                                      
			it would not do
			                                      
			to take a bunch of white
			                                      
			lilac up there
			                    
			man in the grave
			had to have been telling
			                                      
			light does not need
			                                      
			an offering of light
			
			
			
			Rodney Nelson