Poetry

Whether like a deer lightly on talented feet,
scholar of brambles, incredible racer of meadows,
intuitive knower of leaves and the leaves’ shadows,
antlered with boughs to disguise the shallow retreat,—

Past crag and scarp
At length, way won;
And done
The chert’s sharp
 Incision,

Grape-treader Time,
Bald curator of joys
Plucked ere a prime;
Whose guest the weevil is,

The cat nosed around the hummingbird
but didn’t want him. Sweet bird,
his throat feathers go black