I can still see it, just a touch of whatyou might call its lip, or maybe a long knife-readyunderbelly. The sturgeon moon is swimming
I am going to disappear in Belmont,after taking a walk in intermittent rain.I will vanish one day in Belmont—don’t correct me—
Here’s to the innards and ubers
Nobody, my father said, could get so manyscrapes and scratches accidentally:without them I probably would not have liked it so much.
No tide pools, no couples on the beach where my parents met, only whitecaps bowing and lifting, until each blurs into itself.
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Within the hush of birch medallions, fir fingers, wild scallions—that company of dancers held
Channel, brook, stream—call it a riverthat flows past the hospitalin different shades and seasons of blue,
Time to pick berries. This strain (pink when ripeinstead of black) surprises me each August,although I should be used to it by now.
Bending over the piano,or putting the oboe to her lips,she makes music the way a tree
In the great Archaeological Museum of Naples, I visited Flora—force behind everything that flowers—a fresco