5 From 2000-2001

Fronts Has coldness jarred this rain to life? or warming earth given it motion? do leaves have a season to fall or does the earth just need a blanket in the winter? Leaves are sprouts again Spring having no real reason to ponder warming earth just to go outside, playfully hold intellectual conversations with freshly sprouted tulips should ease away the solitude of winter __ In the cloudless sky of memory Your face shines through my consciousness Reveling in the illuminated forest of thought I ponder... --- We used to be Greasers Seen your face fragmented today in passers by (yet I fret) still cutting pizza pies? (reclusive still timing a reclusive past) Popular Water A school of fish turning together (underwater spinal shimmer) in the wake of an awaking whale basking in early morning asphalt waters four lanes 35 mph 6-5-00 Love lost over oceans of time oh how Maria used to sit so close counting crows a game she introduced me to how long since your face was fitted to verse New England Pollens fallen on the green grass growing crows perch vertically horizontally scanning naked brush Barren remnants of a preposterously warm winter Snow fell in indignant flakes to the frigid ground gone today spring churns onward as April turns to May Nature has developed seasonal insecurity