Poetry of Issue #7        Page 42

READING RUMI TO A DYING POET
      (for Linda Gregg, 1942-2019)

There is no death without life ­
turn, turn the page, turn the air
to music ­ there is no life
without death, but let death wait
a while, through the turning days,
the turning nights, may this word-song
drop its notes like warm rain
on her eyelids.

  Chris Brandt