the rain drummed down (1)
…watching flotsam float downriver (3)
Raindrops strummed across the roof (5)
the piano of wet notes (8)
plip-plip plop… oip, oip, oip (6)
For a month, the clouds spilled. (42)
the sea plucked at the rugged land (8)
What is the color of a minute? A month?
A year? (74)
tiny blossoms made the spring air smell peppery (79)
tiny needles of light
piercing the canopy,
the crisp fragrance of wet leaves,
wild herbs, and cinnamon. (97)
a caterpillar to the veined leaf,
a snake to the twig,
a fox to the seedpod. (118)
the flowers bowed their heads
toward one another. The trees reach out
in leafy embraces.
Even the thistles clumped together like old friends. (128)
the fog thinned to mist,
the mist lifted above them,
and the world opened up. (148)
