Poet Tree

Why are cars insects?       No one has said. Our frame of reference       So limited We look at wings       On the windshield  Grooving to a...

Ah, life! --          into the dumpster. They lived too well,                     these vines,       for death             was everywhere, T...

1. A harvest of prickly pears Gathered like grapes, Inflamed, fire orange, Spewing red juice For doves to forage But the cactus dying Has mo...

She came to give love for awhile. The child's attention turns. Menageries become human. She lived her life in the sun And taught us what...

Coyotes ate the neighbors cat. Nothing left but a lucky paw. We helped them make a photo book And dug 54 potatoes at dusk, Red and smooth an...

No chance for grace      With pets in the yard That slip through every crevasse      At any turned gaze. They eat flowers too,      But not ...

Gravity … enlightenment … immortality … We’ve received so few secrets  With our butts to the soil, Where the nets of neural roots Command a ...

A line of them honk like a saxophone choir, Patrolling the ripple zen flow Until the mallards are almost as distressed As the geese, who anx...

What says poem more than an earthworm? In the darkness it holds such dominion, As it breaks every fiber of being down Without a sound, turns...

The moth moves beyond      Human comprehension But the cat's eyes follow,      Know precisely when to strike. The lizard spots a bu...

The cat isn't cluttered by the new birdsong, Doesn't dig for the sake of the hole, Is content where we gnaw with longing, Though...

The lizards move like sunlight one poses for the kind photographer

With enough light on the leaves They are no longer leaves.

The sea must go somewhere; It snarls in these caves Blackened by its foam — All that's left of a reaction. The sound of water on ...

A coastline of driftwood Skeleton stacked As if to support The pier that's collapsed Where the fish still believe In marionette...

Papa Wembe brought light to the space without others, who'd already taken the zero percentage of you. It's a small step from kill...

The two tomato plants in the yard Despite seemingly insurmountable distances Find each other And make love.

The lake vanished. The earth did not apologize, But the horses follow us along the foothills; The 20-carrot jewels left to our broken sp...

The osprey in the bare tree sees: Crabs perambulate to keep the world In front of their testing claws; Insects that use every joint and l...

As the water moves in Fish race over canyons On tracks that spontaneously appear From an intelligence like ripples and bubbles.