AFTER THE MOON FILLS ITSELF WITH MILK
the lightning bug tree
in the middle of the grove
the sand break
in the middle of the river
the blackened angel cloud
in the middle of the noon sky
the stone and red leaf,
the driftwood and oyster puddle
the cold rain of winter,
a brown bear waking to the snow
a track along the ice
in the middle of the storm
December, the drought ending,
rain washed trees bleeding their color
and one quarried house
at the edge of the great swamp of snow