Sediments measured in the river’s current distilled
sand grains awaiting an hourglass’ swell butterfly
designs in the ideograms of worms shells washed up
on the beach trailing heelmarks memory + inertia = rain
and its drunken smell when the vultures circle
in a black peal of wings (desire’s what not) helianthus
blooming green, each filled with a tear deer with
white tails erect or lightning on the plains saxophone
call of the muezzin steps eroded through mortared alleys
horse the size of a fly distant city on the horizon appearing
distant multicolored flags of empty sails wind-up toy
that seeks as a destination, walls burned leaves airborne
as ashes, or feathers stuck to eggs that wait to be broken-
