Pond and Brook
I leave my Pond and Brook by the bedside, with its buzzing mayflies, fin-splashed surface, amoeba-soaked beach, and head downstairs, …
I leave my Pond and Brook by the bedside, with its buzzing mayflies, fin-splashed surface, amoeba-soaked beach, and head downstairs, …
Does water remember as I make my way across her on this diagonal again? I clear a wake, paddles’ light …
i. you call it an expanse but I see the rivers, no whitecap flecks, just warp and weft of current …
maze of brown at the center, trees empty of leaves, row after row stretching to scattered hazel edging the lake, …
this is not quite the breeze that wound past us when we entered the woods off the dirt road and …
I am not sure if it is the breeze, wilder, more freeing than any in the city, or the wintergreen …
Sometimes, my wife thinks she is still a saber tooth. I call to her to come back and we rock …