The transfiguring mirror
of dancing gaze disrupts
a quiet lie.
Reflection
In waters with wind
Category: Wonder
Under Waters
As above
Where murmuration
of birds under dark sky
is often invisible
without obsidian mirror,
a tiny cloud glimmers,
poised to rain a single
poem.
When Company Comes
To leave themselves
The shore in late afternoon in winter sang the shells of a season of arriving tides, drumming the fragments of entire homes these creatures left behind. We walked through them in February when it was cold and you stopped on your knees before them, collecting. The awe on your face with each find. A week later the machines arrived to dredge sand over it all, to smooth the surface for the summer season––to make it, as one spokesperson said, nice for our visitors.
Experiment
With current
Here is one, in forest, blooming. One arm to a neighboring planet, the other to the underfoot. Center as conduit. Burn into body. Water brings earth’s snake rounding air, biting tail, fire becoming again the form, the form coming again, from ash.
The Beyonds
From here
What to make
of what remains
after the burn?
Marked
Selected moments
The bowed wave, well-timed
arrow of bird piercing sunset
sky swelling wind gusting up
just in time to meet the sigh
of almost prayer: a sign, we
say, and mine.
webbed, woven
the numbered stars
the hearts of us
each inside the other
constellate roots to mirror
the desert dreamer’s night sky
switchback
clamber
the flames made a mess of the heart
now mottled with wonder where once
it had been smooth and now another
distant fire closer while feet hold
noting geologic folds of rock face
that time-creased page repeating
how up and out around here
has only ever been a climb
Aspiration
Apprentice
That these ears would open at an angle to mirror the eloquence of the tree bowing to violin the wind.
Dropping Notes
Rain song
After that drought when rain into dust arrowed murmur of song, new prayers puddled at our feet.