MEDIEVAL
A life lived among. Hence
insistence on the full catalogue, the field
of folk, but also flowers, beasts,
and in the water fishes, in the air adensity of wings.
All that delights the eye.
Perspective flattened--it's all at once
impossible fullness, for short time
eternally present. What else
to hope for?
Let us be overwhelmed, our senses
flooded, while we may,
it says.
IN A WORD
1
Those who bore the burden bore children
were bears.
2
We descend from the wild,
we call them fore
bears,
for bears
are our ancestry.
IN TRIPS SWEET MAY, ETC
All praise the generosity of those
who spread their thighs to the touch
whatever their meaning.
GUESTS
In silhouette on a high branch
a mockingbird. Above,
a hawk swoops about the canopy.
It's almost summer, and the foliage turns
from lace to cloth.
Emerge at the top amidst lightning-blasted
Chestnuts gone elm going spruce next.
What follows?
The mocking bird forced north by warming.
THE CONSOLATIONS OF BASEBALL
Springtime:
slow drift of a high fly
on the slightest breeze,
the bitterness of the world forgotten.
BIRDWOMAN
Arms on her knees, breasts flat
against her thighs, her toes
curled over the edge
of the bench, as if holding on.
A SCOTTISH FANTASY: HUME IN LOVE
The kiss
of billiard balls
he says
does not
make visible
the motor force.
STUDY IN GRAY
Could havew been a ballerina:
the long neck and the bun
pulling her upwards. In a dormant state
that mimics depondency, her body lax, her face
downwards. Much schooled
in thew practice of waiting.
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