Seen
/white sheet slipping
and golden slanted light -
an uncovered heart
cannot lie
for long
white sheet slipping
and golden slanted light -
an uncovered heart
cannot lie
for long
a train haunts
in the softer distance -
the ache of here
and not here
missing words bent low -
the daisies finish
too soon
ginger needles
softening the trail -
her lost and found
hummingbird heart -
my mother's beauty
at rest
chicory blue -
the river and I
mouth the meadow
the seed
has not perished
you called me beautiful
once
the birth
of belief
ladybug
in my hair and
sand in the sheets -
summer love doesn't stay
alone
wind hurries the blossoms along -
I remain to tend and
tend to remain
a thousand different leaves whispering this everyday way
eddies of stars
and a rill of sighs -
a thin offering of contrition
unmanaged elegance
grey-blue-grey --
the water and heron
reflecting desire
at bay
waking to June
and rain -
a drizzled mortality asking
for whom I live
the river
refrains
the way dawn drips
from softening pine needles -
at 5 a.m.
blue-green joy
has a name
the om of bees -
springtime shakes the beauty
of resistance
sitting
with a red
rake -
collecting
the grammar
of me
red bird at my feet
and an unanswered call -
a one-word song
burying winter's bird
behind the shed -
I empty my hands of love
sea-shaped envelope -
I put myself away
solitary
in many fields
I hold the hem
of wild knowing
folding corner
to corner
for Beloved's sake