Thursday, January 2, 2020

intimations of (im)mortality



We have
hands
somnambulism
dispelled rumors
benign tumors.

We haven't
John Clare's yew
or John Clare's Mary.

We have shrugging pines,
bees, still quite a few,
and a sage, called clary.

We have rosy maple moths.

We have
seagulls,
terns turning,
prairies burning,
the orenda, and hosho,
but no
sloths,
no matter who calls you that.