5/10
Walking out to the living room in the early a.m. murk, the cat’s dark shadow swimming at my feet as noticeable as a fish coming into view in the shallows of a pond.
5/11
MLK
Late winter shadows spindle
twist and ripple – trunks
whip through sunlight
in the dash of our car
Come spring, green filigree sprouts lace
on branches’ whimsy growing thicker,
clotting into mottled canopy
Trees elegant shush
as though installations on grass
mowed and dotted by Seurat
on the grounds of a
major metropolitan
art museum