breath – other animals

our breath confines four geese to a field covered in ice

(First published in Heliosparrow.)

before I’ve started I
give up on this little
story surrounded
by the almost noise
of air conditioners
slow unseen aircraft
the last breath of
why can’t I just

stop me if you’ve heard this one

but no it’s just
from here we see
trees burning birds
thud to the ground
apartments collapse
spilling canned peas
and plastic dolls into
a stream and clouds
and clouds and clouds

this breath or the next or that
night bird over a lawn without
color some itch on some list

Tell me, if I walk the bridge
and nothing escapes do I
still plant a seed in secret?

rise
&
fall of
her breath draws
the
skyline

resident devil shrink pixel-small fly out with this breath

how long the grass holds her breath

one small brushstroke in a wide landscape my breath

the dog’s hot
breath on my knee
thunder without rain

just above the apartments
a handful of frozen stars
and my breath

out of breath half way up I remember I am the hill