Garden of Dreams 

dark ignorance

marked path

 

what pearls

or your father unfolding

his palm planting

 

ambivalent red blooms

 

lovers erasing

the line of rectitude

 

oyster benches open

plush the restless

wanderer offering

 

sign

for silence

divided

 

recognition

and name

 

(from Bright Seeds, forthcoming from Finishing Line Press)