In the Thriving Season <small>In memory of my mother.</small> Now she catches fistfuls of sun ...My first child in her first spring stretches bare ha… - Lisel Mueller

The Levitation
...Whatever exists is floating:
words without weight, bodies without resistance,
feelings wavy as trailing scarves
move through the gently dissolving center
between heaven and earth where we live,
briefly, in a mild light.

Messages
...Dogs talk to us with their bodies
and accept our answers in words.
Holes ask for rain; the stunted corpse of an elm
is revealed as a sign. We keep breaking
the code of the dead, we reply.

Immortality
In Sleeping Beauty's castle
the clock strikes one hundred years
and the girl in the tower returns to the world [unchanged].
...fear persists, and...
the anger that causes fear persists,
...its trajectory can't be changed
or broken, only interrupted.