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Left Behind climbed the Octopus Tree to find the source of fire.

No matter how hard I played, it was like I was performing inside a vacuum.

He spoke of the river’s origins as though telling of the birth of a god.

At fifty, a new love feels like a particular kind of hopelessness.

I know it’s a problem, that I prefer to think instead of live.

I slide my heart inside a folded sheet of paper and tape down the opening.

Another light is growing out of their shadows. You can hear it.

Desire whittled me a tool I’d never seen but knew how to use.

I stay gripped to pine and the sugar of existence runs through you.

After having been riddled with stars: I lost the light that was lost.

It’s wrong to say the lightning is pink is nothing other than to say it’s not.

The itch of hay dust was the unscratchable itch of desire.

Call it an echo. Like a sketch of the moon as the moon lies in silvery forms.

Some portion of love is braided from lying, from the names of distance.

Mark was spending his life with one of the world’s weaklings.

Welcome, little citizen. Lend me your presence, and I’ll lend you mine.

A goddam mean big sonofabitch boar rooted me in the stomach.

Each evening spent guessing which hemisphere the moon might wreck.

I know that hairs
on my head go singly gray only
by night.

We crunch through the snow in the predawn blue-black cold. He tells me about the stars: Vega, Betelgeuse, Arcturus, Rigel.

I am struck by the otherness of things rather than their sameness.

let me fall through some small bore into your tiny breathing eden

The pumpkins are looking up my skirt, making orange a kind of festive.

The moon rescinds its blessing, rests its forehead on a crosier of ivory.

His eyes rested on the trees. By George, it’s like the garden of Eden.

All the woods are alive with the murmur and sound of Spring.

Maybe that’s what she feels, not stranded, but suspended in time.

Ice and evergreen and sun; three moments arranged for human looking.

she will unchew the dried bulbs of history, spit them at the foot of her post.