- the road home each bend unwinding an earlier versi . . .
- across the blue dome of the great basin mustang . . .
- just past mauve paddling hard for a dark sho . . .
- waltzing matilda two beats ahead of the rain . . .
- leaves changing a language i can’t fully gra . . .
- light falling everywhere in its own place . . .
- backstroke the sound of my mother's womb . . .
- he thinks again of turning leaves her hands . . .
- where creek willows weave the sunlight ducklings . . .
- night paddling the land blacker than the sea . . .
- how cleverly the word divides us . . .
- the skip of a skipping stone alpine swifts . . .
- garden hose a silver arc reaches the last cabbage . . .
- in the curve of the piano a face disappears into i . . .
- waiting for the sheep to pass a skylark's song . . .
- fireworks at twilight forsythia . . .
- shadows fold within shadows of the rose . . .
- up to the summit up to a hawk’s cry up to th . . .
- on a bare twig rain beads what light there is . . .
- white phlox blossoms daring the frost . . .
- snow flurry on an empty street the traffic light t . . .
- corner beggar change is everywhere . . .
- sheltered by the bus stop empties . . .
- funeral procession the hitchhiker tucks his thumbs . . .
- department store sale flyers flying . . .
- in the distance gunshots opening the dark . . .
- election night smoke from an unseen cigar . . .
- over my thoughts the hush of pines . . .
- a solitary bird calls to the space between lightni . . .
- mockingbird an octave shy of the moon . . .