missile test site a yellow butterfly

enter Kali a dark hull drifting among footnotes

spring and the Indian bronze under

a parent worries all the stars in the sky

together in prayer the cardinal's song

pondering solar flares I lit a smoke and watch a bridge cross water

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(otoliths)

as if attached   to your every step   ascending Orpheus

as we sink deeper into it   a slight change   in the subtexts

behind glass faces   we meet as colliding oceans

first deep breath   winter vomiting birds and flowers

for the rest of it a form and some light

I move the keys war moves to another place to eat

child bride together like a horse and carriage

beneath the new white old yellow

looking before a mondegreen lithe

motherhood in fits and starts

above below and from his death incense

mountain switchbacks the ex-con going straight

a rap a wreck drank the ticket

December winds only the blue jay

Syria snapshots the viscous silence of black and white

not voting the conscientious objector

in October too American paranoia interrupted by commercials

i love the fools love me

in Gun's Own Country a rusting sun

Autumn sticking pins in my foot

iced smile interstices lying between

be the hope you change

shards time takes rain to dry

(when? does? it? stop? this? rain?)