snow – haiku and other animals

snow on top of snow the snowman’s arm pointing somewhere

build a little temple in the well of the clavicle golden light honey fig bread wine maybe this book will run through the clouds we see tending to the is it only animals who live on the mountain

storm in the forecast & all these chapped lips for the best adverbs to fry up this or any other burger so why does it have to fill up the whole page ants build cities with mouths as small as we could wish for

where a tooth unrecognized as rotten should worms long to chew as though a star covered in gauze in the forest shout what from the shadow of a younger life of a beneath centipedes cry and yes still these empty hands in the snow

snow starts
too much
ink in the pen

snow before you know where you’re going an inch

I buy an orchid
for the spare room
melting snow

snap of sugar snap peas as snow starts on TV

under an inch of snow
the outline of a ladder

slowly fading the snow capped ridge of my scar

I try on all my clothes in the dream deep ruts in the snow

melting snow my accountant’s enormous fingers