the whole while
snow puts to bed
differences in landscape
friction in the hiss
raises forests
and lays flat the field
to the ear’s extent –
•
a puddle in the dark
impossible to miss
because of pissing rain
•
a sound like
white noise rustle
or friction in the snow screen
drapes over the poem
almost in its form
•
that pop song with
the submarine ping:
bar dudes sound
the dance floor
with eyes for
and for not
•
just as a chandelier’s scatter
of twinkling in cathedral acoustics
echoes the higher dimensions
a Homeric simile conforms
to a mind’s raised contours
•
from the stadium’s roar
thru the third base gate
emerges the sense
the other side will clearly win
•
where the field ends
the chatter of crickets
peepers mark the water line
•
let cicadas rattle
the mind cherry
trees harbor winter
in August boughs
a screen of natural static
•
As snow puts to bed
differences in the landscape
what she says quiets
whatever you’d say
makes us unique