6/25/17: Seeing a Former Student From Afar

the face recalled—

a lark visible only

by its song

5/27/17: Transience

noise—the bird

sharing this sidewalk departs

my life forever

from here, two birds

chasing each other appear

swept on by wind

I’m telling you—

the lark on the sill outside knows

the window is real

pigeons that

will not leave worried bread

for any step

ants its

only mourners—stringing

to take some away

what it might be like

to be a song-less bird known

only by flying