downlands

downlands



animating paralysis lightens
encumbrance illuminating shadow
broadcasts cooling flames inedible fruit
unlocked of grasped hair life-polished gray stones

glistening in the dark old pains calving
into summer bays to drift spinnaker
aqua rose towards six-month marine daybreaks
flashflooded dry valleys capriciously

eroding rivulets never before
seen disused speeches crumpled discarded
nothing to truck to market nothing to
taxi through peopled agoras saltmarsh

soaked up by cadmium green musk cattails
vetivers raining sand on powdery
coupled egrets sail enemyless towards
downy rookeries unpossessed to preen.