a branch falls
(the revelation)
this burden of water
this awkwardness
of age
gogyohka
1596
knock and
knock
again now
is not a good
time
1592
look there
see the bodies in your
heaven
they move in celestial orbit
let me count the beat of your pulse
1591
that squirrel
in the birdbath is a water
dragon —
these compact fluorescent
bulbs bend the truth
1526
so, again the dream in this
fluttering world where these
phalanges remember flight
and each cell sloughed
is another lost chance
1525
wild birds flew into my living
room I knew someone would
die my sighs grew feathers
they built nests of grief and
indecision they preened
1523
I’ve discovered that things disintegrate
watch the light change color
the beginning
leaves us behind the beginning ends
I can’t remember who we used to be
1522
we are too innocent to
look exhausted red-rimmed
faces shocked and bending with
this death we are too young
tell us why we came here
1519
in this dream I am
the sky vultures glide
on my thermals when I
close my one good
eye everyone waits
1518
this is where my story
begins again the sun
again the empty
cups this is what a
friend does this is
