Rearrangements
What word for the movement of leaves?
quicker than trembling
each leaf of thousands
doing its own shimmy and twist
midsummer at the park
cellphone metal detectors
unfazed the old cottonwood on its
flat bed communes with a watery past
floating peatbog lidded still below?
to the north solid wall of mountain
arching memory of the big ice
elderly soul shuffles the parking lot
back and forth
featherlight she
scuff-scuffs the pavement
we walk under trees under leaves murmuring
among themselves coming into deep summer
their dark secrets we climb in cars
return to shelter to lists
and rearrangements of everything. |
