Rings possess fingers.
Fingers remember
what the eyes have
blocked. The blindness
in this
case is figurative.
The figure in this
case is
curvaceous.
)
Milled, folded,
soldered.
Inlaid omen.
Mokume gane.
Ifs as hinges.
Ands as pins.
Rings as
reunions.
)
In some remote
pre-dawn eye slit
the horizon largely
the same
the cinquefoils still
chirpy and obliging the ox-eyed
daisies and the daisies
fleabane and the worts and weeds
the thistles and yarrows
still healing and exotic
in their ways —
Weeds bind.
Tongues beard.
Thimbles berry.
Balms bee.
Flags blue.
)
Rain clarifies colors —
colors reveal the brief
ambition of these
provincial weeds.
In gullies,
mosses soft, mosses bright
as dyed suede
feel rich beneath scrubbed feet.
Rain — nature’ s iteration —
light paradiddles
on the surface
of the creek.
How free-making this word
(penniless)
before
a judge!