you ensure the life

looking for meaning, we see

reaching skyward — up

sunlight in canyons

the skeletal curvature

drink it into you

I found a carcass

constructed with four circles

‘fore you fly away

when I banished you

you need not the sun or moon

forest holding hands

the lenses we have

for the hidden forest doors

boardwalk to the sky

immerse all of you

little hummingbirds come, go.

our place in the stars

sometimes you long to

when you enter the forest

wrapping around beams

this year you have bloomed

from the evening robins’ beaks

view of this wonder

even the strongest

of this precious blue planet

versions you can be

in the corner you

will be erased by time’s tides

never in silence

unfold at sunrise

ev’ryone becomes silent

and eddies of life

a foggy morning

come to hold my hand, farewell

joyfully alive

teaching math all day

in one sedum, young to old

revealing true form

I found you — fallen

in fall you came, but no more

I awake in grace

there is a pulse here

to journey beneath the stars

propagating good

as a treehugger

to the heights that we desire

we have ever had

heart rate integrals

hints of orange and purple

reaching skyward — up

even planets, stars

settle down in the long light

on the azure sky

you take off and fly

cohesion yet separate

together a seed

on my forest runs

and dip myself in the clouds

in a cloud of sleep