Normally green, fan palm branches
now gleam in the sun reflecting its
light with bright, sparkling, swaying silver
branches in the wind as though it wished
to redefine itself as being something far
beyond the sphere of a mere fan palm.
—
Richard Fleck is a retired professor from the University of Wyoming with numerous books of his published here and Japan. His poems have appeared in journals including Appalachia, Northern New England Review, Poetry Nippon and elsewhere. His most recent poetry collection, Bamboo in the Sun: Poems of Japan, was published in 2020.
