The Now and the Not Yet, by Bill Waters

The Now and the Not Yet, by Lorette C. Luzajic (Canada), 2015.

The Now and the Not Yet

fifty words for rain . . .
the coming storm
sudden with summer


the leaves fall by the hundreds --
the reflecting pool
bursting, combustive


downtown --
crystalline icicles
arresting the flight of light


sunrise surprise:
white, luminous
bones

Bill Waters

Editor's note: The Now and the Not Yet is a poem from The Luzajic Variations, a chapbook featuring the poetry of Bill Waters and the artwork of The Ekphrastic Review's editor, Lorette C. Luzajic. Bill wrote these poems using only titles from Lorette's paintings, creatively rearranged.

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Known primarily for his Japanese-style micropoetry, Bill Waters also writes ekphrastic poetry, found verse, book spine poetry, light verse, and all manner of short prose. More of his writing can be found at his blog Bill Waters ~~ Haiku (http://bit.ly/145diBy) and his “blog-within-a-blog” Bill Waters ~~ NOT Haiku (http://bit.ly/1NZSyRo). Bill lives in Pennington, New Jersey, U.S.A., with his wife and three cats.