Author: admin

Imperceptible pulse of frost
Turning what’s lush to crimson –
I hear Schubert.

(City girl in love again with a ray
of grass precise as a hummingbird’s tongue.)

Now and then you’ll see one
circling a streetlight, or in Austin,
thousands emerging from beneath a bridge

The cloud-trail bends across a measureless blue ceiling as if it were trying to spell things out, convey to us advance-warning a cosmic wink-of-the-eye jetting through deep blue veins this stoic messenger, biting its tongue lest...

For both the refugee and me
there’s nothing left undamaged
but our song –
a twin flurry of desperation surrounded
by the silence of our worlds.

Spill forth your kind words
let them flow freely
for lest gratitude is spoken
it endures in silence
obliviously.

Observing a deer
Munching on berries
His head jerks up
Stares at nothing

I shut my book, lean against the wall,
after all,
we are mere water molecules
that dribble from between rocks