Landscape of Abandonment

© Ajit Ghai

 

© Ajit Ghai

 

Landscape of Abandonment

Trees have abandoned
their hard-working leaves to the cruel
November winds. The winds pluck the leaves off

one by one. And cold nights let frost
descend upon the shore. The wild
flowers that thrived here

are here no more. And a layer of ice newly formed
on the lake shuts tight
the food cupboard’s door

upon the birds. Migrating birds stop
dropping by the lake when it closes
its heart and door.

 

 


Dinh Le Doan is a Canadian residing in Beaconsfield, Québec. He has worked as an engineer and manager at a high-tech company in Montréal. He now devotes his time to writing poetry. His poems have appeared in Tower Poetry Publications, Montréal Serai, and Devour: Art & Lit Canada.