Leaf Geometry I
rico-
cheting
to the
ground
in brittle light
gold hiero-
glyphs of autumn
lost
loves
lost chil-
dren scuffed
underneath our
feet
old age, its
brutal
leaf sca-
rs
remem-
ber spring
what multiplic-
ity of arcs
angles
of hope
we were pull-
ed as sky warmth
pulls buds
to op-
en
uncloak peti-
ole, midrib
veins
summer
’s heat
roared
through root
and leaf
we reached
for the upper ver-
tex
its under-
current sucked
us into the emer-
ald lamina
of lac-
quered
desire
now
fall twilights
us toward the chill
cloison-
ne of
winter
bar-
ren womb
of branch
what naked ang-
les we must
live in
the geom-
etry
of loss graph-
ed on our
skin
(Originally published in The Anemone Sidecar.)
