Faces
Faces turn up almost anywherein patterns on a rug’s jumbled displaywhat a tree’s bark offers and withdrawsto anonymity in clouds of coursewhere faces mix with birds,…
Unexpected
Unexpected but what isn’t, latelyas unpredicted weathers turn up blindfor us to finish, make themselves and uswhat each would be in words if words could saywhat…
Wave Watch
They’re coming for us steadilyunregimented, uneven in slap-dash ranks spaced erraticallywe see them uniform at first, but they aren’t they come for us because they mustto…
Measuring
Corridors walked are walking us beaches, stairs, fence-lines who’s or what’s done or doing matters only in after-thoughts wanting identity, ownership, consequence walk, site,…
Old Shoes
We’re old shoes all worldly weathers wearwe’re dancing thinking only we will sing left right neither leads nor straggles, stairsa startled challenge we forgot they’d bring.…
Five Words
A long-ago hill-climb unfinishedback into wordlessnessits ground as summit a dozen years is nothinginbreath, outbreathoars flying forward over water when elements won’t arriveabandon fear and longinga…
The Artlessness of Forgetting
(after Duo Duo) It was just hereits shaped absence hoversa tease, a playful provocationremembering isn’t finding and reversingforgetting’s course, which has no courseno art, no processa…
Dry Bones
If it seems we’re wandering, we are. Just passed the last gas station (it reminded us) this side of the mountains. There’s too much scenery to…
E Pluribus
Rounded on itself in abstraction, heavy with official sanction, honest as George Washington the virtuous slave owner whose image is on its front, the image of…
Leaf Blower Season
Leaf Blower Season Leaf blower season is largely clean-upafter spring optimism and summer excessleaves have changed colors, come down to usout of their green heights, waving,…
The Dog Star 