Monday, July 18, 2011

We Flounder


The truth is everywhere. We flounder
  swim in it. What we breath. See through.
  It is the ground we, sideways glancing,
  press with our off cheek. And the air
 we stare at and know not and hooked
  and drawn or dredged up drown in.
  And also the deeper water.
  Black offshore. Beyond us.
  You can't miss it:
it tastes of salt.

Sunday, July 10, 2011

Tanka in gratitude for a glacial erratic


This quartz was lifted
flew slowly here borne by ice
to cure writer's block.
Sat here while we invented
alphabets, and now these words.