Raymond Byrnes
Tramp

Breeze
blew
into town
late last night.
She made her usual rounds,
ran long fingers through a locust's heavy curls,
swayed past a clump of sapling birch leaning and trembling in her path,
sighed, swirling tight against an oak standing tall,
waved sensuously as she left.
It was morning
before things
settled
down.