a long walk
the stars and I
head home
baby birds
me
and their big mouth
raindrop
just couldn't wait
to tell me
thunder
starts to say something
then changes its mind
the rain
washing the wind
out of my hair
black-eyed susans
nodding to everything
the wind says
feathers
dipped in sunrise -
robin
a streak of wind
suddenly stops
to become a dragonfly
my head is full
of flowers I can smell
all day
these cherry blossoms
who lost their way -
white moths
memories of weeds
behind the garage
where I crept and crawled
still
too thick to cut
day moon
some of the stars
pretend they're flowers
the parts that wore away
from you and I
so we could fit
running off that way
in my backpack
bread
a little peanut butter
and no reasons
the last stars
stay awake with me
until morning
holes in the kale
clouds of butterflies
apologize
two buffalo in a pen
next to a rundown diner
on I40
the not so wild west
stares with the blackest eyes