bird's eye view

a small life  compressed as a mouse upon a button of tender stone  folded pressed  marigolds & riverbeds ribboned packages of blooming  ...

Once upon a time  i allowed death to swallow me  perhaps not all of me  but the parts that dance & write most  definitely  they lay some...

the dead come to me as birds & thunder  fleeting shadows within he cherry tree  songs caught in my hand  feathers  distant rumblings in ...

 the bridge was burned at dawn by a mere thought of eraser  misplaced perhaps, in the dark hours of dawn  the command-shift-! key took to he...

hanging over the thicket of brambled forest this acre once unfettered  lies forgotten - ditch water still--broken by deadfall of oak & p...

how could i have forgotten the dark light of my mother's eyes?  I placed all memory upon the bruising swell and forgot how piercing ...

this lake lies small and distant apparent alive - falling now swift blooming quiet of another time silence unfreezing   strong they call us ...