3.24.2004

AT CARATUNK




Beside a spring pond
limpid as Corot
waiting, I found
oak, birch, willow
fed heart grown fond.


Some blind bond
drowned long ago;
some old wound
whispering low
in branches, wind.


(Signals they send
we don't understand.
Seedlings, sounding
every season's end.)


Over flat land
spry flocks row;
under hard ground
small seeds pry
off stiff shells, rend


frozen sedge, wend
green stems through.
In an endless round
I'd lose myself (so
into a circle bend).

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