One
               kerplunk

via pebble into
                         horse
                           tail creek,
(((creates another
                           ringed continuous)))
                  lies flat then,
     an imperfect circle of
                     cut black cloth     a last
                                      pool
            till late
                    fall        returns--

you can feel
                            a coolness
               settle in
                              each willow
                             loses green
                            gains yellow
                                               recedes
               let's go
as i must
                          seek to do
               this season,
                          this evening
                                    in
                                          the long shadowed
                              grass & pen they're
                         wavering
                     on the page
                              now
                                 as one
                                          spear

September 29, 2001
Walker Creek, California

*

Time has been freaked
in the collar
kept up by monitor ripple
and blood pressure thimble
barely light can track
it's swing, the heart
in all time carves
through
yonder swale, laps at
tonalities in mind--
breaks in breath,
dissolve of
the crystalline shield

            October 2
            Hudson Valley, New York

                        •

"...groaning helps transitions..."

            "UP"

              is

a poem dad says I wrote...

so i do
   with
            a great blue
                  October
            Heron on
                  the Hudson,
                           we writing together
                  with the river
                           in hand, cut right
            through thought &
                             the tough
                              tangerine
                                        tongue
                                of
                        the sun's
                                    corrugated
                              reflection