February 2007

If they're right, the whizkid physicist-theorist thinktank guys,
suggesting that every acted-on decision of ours produces a brachiation
in the timestream (therefore, two simultaneous independent futures:
for example, one extending from my use of "brachiation,"
one extending from my almost-use...

You can tell by how he lists
to let her
kiss him, that...

Flames from the burn barrel
flicker orange against a stormy sky,
poppies' tenacious, red petals
tissue-thin
in the path of rubble and salt wind
a seaside garden someone's tended,
bricks scrounged for a border
a whistle away from the lighthouse...