born morning/ coffee/ steam-drift/ peripheral—did you?/ slipping movement/ downridge: brown, lean

Picture the honeysuckle wild in January wind:/ knots of branches, muscles tensing./ The ash tree

I conjure the perfect herb garden in my mind:/ anise, basil, cardamom, fennel nestling/ in alphabetical order

A crystal clear/ Tear// Drifting/ Slowly// From a precious/ Emerald eye// Landing/ Gently// On to my/ Feathered

I was here with you for a long time./ You must have learned something./ Keep walking,/ far past

Dare not to think in your imagination that/ Somebody might pluck you./ Bloom with all the anchorage and

Distant mountains echo,/ Thunderous,/ In my heart./ Meanwhile, my mind/ Sways gently/ To looming branches

How to reach the center?/ Holding together this universe,/ that by some law of physics/ Is pulling itself

I tasted from the brook, sucking from/ my cupped hands the crushed shards/ catching sunlight to

The yard is bare and desolate/ Patches of grass laid out here and there/ Weeds have taken over/ A fool’s

lullaby of rain/ raining on rain/ fills the night/ while the village sleeps

the buckets up high/ pouring wide on us below,/ white mountain washed out./ flowers droop in rain

Sea and sky/ show me your/ blue music,/ bring me waves,/ raindrops, and/ pleasant views./ I will take/ rhythm

A  dreamed  ship has gone aground/ at the most marvelous and dreamiest afterglow./ The mast

The roads are two./ One that leads you to the alleyways of dreams,/ And other to the land of distant

The sound of doors/ shutting inside/ anonymous rooms/ during the quiet/ hours when there is still/ light

Quando fiam uti chelidon// The musk rose folds upon herself/ like a mother, keening// Hush now –// don't

This day is extremely long./ The sun is setting by the hills./ Everyone says to stay strong./ At the wake, we

She left him like a boat/ when the tide has gone out,/ sandbank hours; lost hope./ Stole his dreams to

the doppler of traffic/ on a quiet/ sunday morning/ washes through sunrise/ like a seashore/ and the