In this life, save the body which is the fruit of many lives. Espaliered pear: how heaviness lavishes the twisted boughs with sugary sustenance tamed taught in gnarl and gold. You would hold this autumn’s omen, press to chest a prayer: that your life become bounteous, useful as […]
Unbearable, the snowdrops, as if winter could be something lived through. Overmuch, this reminder of life, the dead earth candling its sorrows with bowed heads in silent mourning. Implausible, to have been— meaning to have harmed, to have cut the bud by the root—as if being could ever, […]
Because only dwarf birches grow here, we dream of tall trees. Where we came from, a conifer was a church. Ask the pine, the yew. Ask the spruce how it makes its mind a mirror. To watch wind riffle leaves: even the smallest tree is being told a […]
Just this light. And it might go on forever. Stare straight. The sun wants your shadow long as a list of crimes. Pardon the beggar her hassle. Pardon the thief his capture of night. This is how we live the summer, in a blinding. Blind to the sanderling […]