states

let it break more
completely before
everything and anything
is done and all
the stops pulled
last resort booked
the boats all launched
the beaches swept clean
out into the sea
back again we go

dust

knuckles deep the dust
of last night over
our turns in sleep
some keep

visions_versions_birds1

with little flicks of the wings
a robin stalks a worm
under an overcast sky
all types of lives

granite two

let down the stone
which with the weight
of the world fractures
at the edge of each
ache and facet
chrysanthemum red
exposed and iron ends

granite

what it is that
the rocks say about
the river that sat
once high above
now downhill
running on
among and below
a weight off
flimsy and soaking
prone to breaking
in white frothing
from the mouth
and all along
of course

red is the cardinal

last light cardinal
singing to half of us
moon includes another
silver pews the branches
empty though the sermon
spills clear and true

is

little rings around
the trees sing and all
the leafs green now and then
when the cold comes
 off into the next
they toss and expect
not this not this

archimedes

on the level of where the water
settles and scores a line
the various times
higher and lower
always pushing the sky

animals

the weathered look
of the rabbit run
after the purple finch
after two hops on
the sidewalk takes off
right into the tree
and also in the yard

rained_in

each step of the way
mud makes cakes
of feet heavy enough
to lay down to sleep