paiut pass

smoking in a rock hollow
above treeline peaks
in alpenglow
the vast cold vibrating
leak and tender
a temporary
shelter

new animals

blackberries
at night
fall’s new

cool your voice
walking me
in circles

say nothing
the long

winter coming
and lie

wet
in the
fresh wound

species of light

parrots in the eucalyptus
alien sounds walking
late night black plover hunched
like a moon

~~~
true to a horse
the smell of rain
untenable distance

~~~

no forest
darkens this
cold this quick
to describe what we are
is to reach out
for the reins