Kelley White
1. look, here are sticks that blossom
2. a leaf
3. last year I spoke here to the young owls and offered them a bowl of small fishes
4. they cried out, and I raised my cry to them
5. frozen dancing trees
6. will you remember to dress in leaves?
7. that is just a mourning dove
8. at last I will see a single new pine cone
9. all of the days are cold
10. the sky grays
11. listen, a heavy whine
12. why have the owls abandoned their perfect tree?
13. I wear my cloak of skunks, of chipmunk, of owl, of foxes
14. so many have prepared bonfires of sticks
15. why did the birches fall so uniformly?
16. what wind? what ice? what snow?
17. like a stinging moth
18. nothing lives here
19. an uprooted tree dances upon stones
20. like the meadow’s bones
21. moss lichen lichen stone stone stone
22. I nearly fall
23. I slip on dead leaves
24. a ladder of twigs
25. more holes drilled to fresh wood
26. why don’t I see the owl?
27. the divisions of stone