swans and seagulls a lot of s's by the lake

spider web unwinding the robin's song

Cosmic O

whirlpool of detouring spermatozoa starlit wormholes

hemispheric incense breath bisected

  
between thunderclouds the spade strikes a stone

    

midnight the flash bulb of the egret's warning

(cloudburst)

cloudburst you rain away from me

coping with water one horizon curves another

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Pharmakós the name you scratch inside

A nod to the senior military officer who wrote a poem after he witnessed the 911 Pentagon attack. His poem is now part of the big poetry and art project led by Bob Holman and Jeff Koons.

memory of starlight wink of a one-eyed dog as it sneezes

gut full of nails perforated pulse

coiling the few words I know weightless

(whippoorwill)

whippoorwill your words interstitially

the weakness of his tea-bagged words

(nine names)

nine names for being set upon by wolves

gull funeral sea brush tearing the horizon

  
in the droning blossom losing myself finding myself

  

circumscribing a zero with black ink the Patriarch dozes off

wishing on hand-me-down stars

(the sound)

the sound the air makes when it’s not wind

Melissa, I thought this might play along:


hindsight the impossible maths of crowd dispersion

scent of lawn fertilizer divides the promise of spring

(probability)

probability a tree full of sparrows rearranges itself

denial walking away from the sunlight

sun bundled in kaleidoscopic hawks

the sky has gone dragonfly blue

simmer of mist hunger undone

puzzle piece sinks in a parking lot puddle expat

choking on an Asian pear cherry blossoms

falling into summer yellow tulip petal