poems

• I Mistake Two

  I mistake two loving crows

  for one enormous black bird

  on the eave of an old house

  across the alley.

• What a Pretty Day

  What a pretty day it is.

  The sun has turned the sky blue

  and the clouds are opening

  like dusty curtains.

• When Someone

  When someone smiles

  at me on the street

  at first I think

  they are mistaken;

  then I smile back

  and feel mistaken

  myself because I

  don’t know how to smile.

• Enabled by Wind

  Enabled by wind

  to hear the spirits passing

  my window

  on a gray morning,

  I wonder how my warm life

  will finish this long sentence.

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