Mapping Rain in Chalk

Other Etiquettes

Wild animals and children

spend, manage, ration

their luxuries in

a proper manner,

and wear strewn

flowers as cloth.

Fieldstones or

pieces of wood

become trusted servants,

accidental companions,

arranged with acceptance

and remembrance

in the world beyond

tin cherubs, gilt angels

and cellophane grief.

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This poem is included in Chiral Phenomena, Intaglio Galosh Studio Press, 2011.