In morning’s sward gray sky, a large goose
scans seaward; then suddenly majestically
lifts into the sodden air: a molecular being winged and blood-bidden, beholden to the
wild mushrooms dawning, after a storm.

Like a hung-up halgard, an empty jacket
hangs on a branch. Decapitated and face
down burials of "the dangerous dead" or
the targeted bodies of children?

Sky Water Bird
Fifty-five years
since he leaped into the pond
his poems swimming upward.


 

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