up close the ladybird is up close and really big

 at vespers a molehill rises between my knees     

 in my prison frogs sip the sea 

 

 through my bifocals a cloud shift of certain speed

 cry of the loon grinding in my molars

 

 

 like it or not says he blue water colours sheep bells

 parted hair-drizzle broken street lights

 foot stabs a sun dial's soft creaks in the dark

 an ingrown silence coiled in a diary whimpers

 slinking deeper as fish is my soul an ocean?

 

 not believing in dreams a father drops the squid

 beyond my grave a boy of light and milk

 bird feet the night we destroyed the buildings 

 in a dream of potato genetics the strawberry man

 the heron’s heart Van Ruisdael’s brushstroke 

 its song the birch that kills you

 in your dirtbike heart a cow falling

 where the hippos sleep january snow

 independent thought the jellyfish's wishbone

 the king must die three weeks of dragonflies

 perched bird the silence of dna

 w/ the word thursday we fix rain

 the ceiling ab negative 

  

finding audubon’s mystery birds a burdock bulb

 hambone infinity god makes a squid

 in the deep the heart of ice rain is sapphire

 

 the creek's pretence at resoluteness winter drizzle 

 congealed in a puddle discarded skies

 after-rain steam sweating off the weight of blindness

 

 mewling tinnitus a poem once