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.