Poem Category: All

Harvester starts
the first cloud of diesel
into the wheat field.

Probing novelties
from the mud bay shallows
the old men Ibis.

Finding a shadow
the platypus frightened
by another canoe.

Following them down
on their frozen faces
the elevator jolt.

Sunset sinks
the windmill dry-retching
into the drought.

More than a child is
she carries
a bird from the road.

Aunt’s visit
her hat feather’s bob-bobbing
in our conversation.

Interstate bus
an aunt chatting family
to strangers.

Mushroom search
the shapes of trees dripping
whitened by fog.

I , an eagle …
heaving out to
the surface of air.