creatures caughtin the heat of mating/
body partsof personal history/
memory’s tenuous grip/sudden dip
of yesterday’s gullsat the rocky shore/
the Bay of Fundy’slonely sweep/
tropical birds of Floridarock cliffs of Arizona/
the heat of today pasta shallow light is cast/
the whole story is not whole—parts mirror a larger tale
as valves my heart’s health/bold claims of Whitman’s America
Dickinson’s not wantingto impose/
the shell’s swirlmimicked in nature
in our patterns/flashes of flower
of flood/soft belly under a wave
veins of a last leaf/life as derivative
as new
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