Cinnamon Sky, by Taunja Thomson

Flowering Plum Tree (after Hiroshige), by Vincent Van Gogh (Netherlands), 1887.

Cinnamon Sky (after Van Gogh after Hiroshige)

Cherry-brown burl reaches up
in angles

past spring grass and onlookers
in blues and yellows
(vague and unimportant)

past grey tree trunks
whose only role
is to carry a firmament
of silver and citrine
cloud-petals

past all this 
and up to a cinnamon sky
that serves as backdrop
for the occasional 
albescent cup-petaled plum
blossom    tousled faces
that turn this way
and that.

Taunja Thomson

Taunja Thomson’s poetry has most recently appeared in Peacock Journal and Half-Baked.  Two of her poems have been nominated for Pushcart Awards: “Seahorse and Moon” in 2005 and “I Walked Out in January” in 2016.  She has co-authored a chapbook of ekphrastic poetry that is due out in May of 2017 and has a writer’s page at  HYPERLINK "https://www.facebook.com/TaunjaThomsonWriter" https://www.facebook.com/TaunjaThomsonWriter.  A worshiper of nature, her summers are filled with water gardening, and her winters are spent obsessively feeding the birds and other wildlife that appear in her one-acre slice of heaven, a field.