Today I saw a developing stem of an English Walnut tree.
spring
Today I Saw
Honey Locust
Today I Saw
Staghorn Sumac
Today I Saw
jumpy sleek dark ghosts appear in the turbulent blue-green fringe
Somehow
I am noun made whole
by your verb made flesh
accompany my spring
flower my summer
come to my falls and
envelop my winter
all grass leaps for your laughter
all fires cry for your breath
all trees ache for your mystery
all water boils at our death
soil me with your presence
and cleanse me with your smile
leave me all the better
and stay with me awhile
La Guerre “V” (page 58) (E.E. Cummings)
O Sweet spontaneous
earth how often have
the
doting
fingers of
prurient philosophers pinched
and
poked
thee
,has the naughty thumb
of science prodded
thy
beauty .how
often have religions taken
thee upon their scraggy knees
squeezing and
buffeting thee that thou mightest conceive
gods
(but
true
to the incomparable
couch of death thy
rhythmic
lover
thou answerest
them only with
spring)
4.4.13
a leaf
falls
in spring
3 A.M.
hear
the killdeer
under the brightest of moons
so
distinctive
springtime has entered my room
master bias leaning 