new letter found: the death of a century tree

delicious and all foxed out green acres greener still up the mango of cherry chocolate and almonds carrying saturate heart across pineapple habanero banana garlic soda bread garbanzo cilantro hard cheese chives basil curls and spinning heads whose poked-out eye lives in the stump blessed life-lost tree water & beer coax back to life squirrel stagger mourn the bark and talking dogs and dogs that hum like fans in the night til morning's methane spurts through venetian salutations ragged out input robins-purr shatter The Wrong Me or Falling/Running and then Bivouac Bromeliad & Co. Walking Through how tell it plain like Stetson or salvation kiss in a car cross highway down lane swirl to find my book she lit a candle set in the bathtub a bandaged heart lighthouse for listing blue blue blue blue blue beer pilgrim

even in the cold sprout tangle of her bed there's a ladybug lifting

lifting

lowering

lifting

lowering

her wings