Saturday, April 12, 2008

Dried Bark

dried bark scattered on the ground
holding down the rain,
telling stories of
anxious wind lavishing bare branches,
dew-speckled trees braced,
budding.

dried bark turning over in my hands,
picked apart into
shimmering golden-brown worlds,
sublimating in the sun
fading in my grasp.

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