What the Wind Says
Chip Dameron
June 7, 2026
The wind speaks through oak and elm leaves
that clatter in the afternoon breeze,
telling stories of where it has been
in a language derived from nature
and not from human fabrication.
And the wind also tells us today
about the core story, one we ought
to tell, about this ordinary day
when it arrives in bursts and opens
our senses to what the birds also sing:
each moment is key to our own tale.
Chip Dameron's latest collection of poems, As the River Tumbles On, is forthcoming from Lamar University Literary Press.
