Opportunity

Opportunity I love you
Windows and watermelons march down the street
The air is nobody

Sky is in position
I am ready to endure my freedom

A riderless horse on a saffron plain
A lake that spins
A tree that lets the wind decide

Robert Winner, "Opportunity" from The Sanity of Earth and Grass, published by Tilbury House. Copyright © 1994 by Robert Winner.  Reprinted by permission of Sylvia Winner.
Source: The Sanity of Earth and Grass (Tilbury House, Publishers, 1994)
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