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| Guettarda uruguensis/jazmín del Uruguay |
In this sonnet, each line ends in "ve" which in Spanish means "go."
"Ending" was first published in 2017 in Alabama Literary Review (volume 26, number 1) and appears in my collection Pointing Home (Kelsay Books, 2019).
Ending
Nothing to reproach or to forgive.
Nothing to unwind or to unweave.
No arguments to prove or to disprove.
No wrongs to right. No rights to claim or waive.
In retrospect, it’s all so relative—
seasons, space-time, truth and make-believe.
I’ve left the northern hemisphere, but you’ve
a motto: Plus ça change . . . I hear
you; save
that here the jasmine is in bloom. Above,
Crux reappears to complement a mauve
and apricot tableau. The men arrive,
back from the long November cattle drive,
while in a nearby eucalyptus grove
a golden-eared paloma coos his love.
