April 9th

Far off, long away, distantly,
mud; wonderlight city in blue, overgrowing,
overgrown, here under the springtime sun and always this
long long way from home

Chairs, boats, a car, waiting as a lonesome heart,
eastern, northern, to the winter sunrise now,

Darkhot
Mosquito spiked
Snake, poison ivy,
Tick

Let us always walk before morning,
unwind herself before we are even awake,
awake with her into the rising, the heat,

bright new hot
snakebird, cicada
white cedar, purble flower

The woods shut their gates again
and I can see the bottle tree forest, haint proof,
wish tree woods, next winter,  waiting,

Human to look forward constantly and
Animals here in the present, all senses, pointedly,
Far off, long away, distantly,