the silence
these blue skies
fill with stars
until my eyes
can't hear
anything
he couldn't fly
but he had a light you could hold
in your hand
I tied one of the bad words
to a tree
but it chewed through
and ran down the street
barking
slits of eyes
above the grass
(hiding
in the weeds
of me)
you and I
the two points
of a swallow's tail
when summer leaves
she takes her roses
with her
empty feeders
swaying
in a humming bird sky
I tell him he can stay
if he sings me to sleep..
cricket
I suddenly understand
why the sunflower
bows
I sit
the crickets
chant
empty feeders
swaying
in a humming bird sky
last summer rain
I watch
the roses unbloom
sparrows
busy telling the leaves
goodbye
summer breeze
autumn wind
playing hopscotch
squirrels
burying summer
in shallow holes
breathing in
what sets the doves
free