Not like a figwort

Not like a figwort but not an aster, either. Could he be a buttercup

with sepals, no petals, but sepals like petals? Alan is a bluebeech,

an ash if his books sell. Quick shake hands. Zach's bald ok, a

magnolia, cone-like fruits a bridge to his Neanderthal father.

When did Ben become a chestnut lover? It's said women are practical

but there's much variation in their leaves, ovaries. Many are older,

stumps, snags for peckers and porcupines, teachers, feeders, seeders.

What did the wood thrush sing

                                            teaching its young thrush meanings?

Sometimes a mushroom. Did you know such fungi are mostly protein?

Mushrooms could replace meat, and the dead, the dead's feet, white

as pyrola, could replace the living. Well, we worry. Will we, bad luck,

be extinguished. Denizens of convenience stores think who cares, will

I beat the reaper? Hope sempiternally springs. Things rarely clear

as sun among the sundews. Eating huckleberries from your kayak.

What Paulinaq says is live your life and then your death until nothing's left.

Then thou shalt be bereft

                                      of the heavy sackcloth of the soil, soul.

Said to Mrs. Buckthorn: good poets imitate, great poets steal.

I think she's more an apple tree. Or pear. Good to eat,

amenable to loving. Rose or Ericaceae, the differences make the

difference. Emerson and Rylin Malone are dead. The dead

are dumb, the dust won't speak. And this deep, dull and dark

blessing's a horizontal reserve. Moonlit. Mr. Hickory is actually a yellow birch,

holy and exfoliating. Busy spilling seed on the surface of the snow.

Teaching essay

                      writing, algebra, earth science, branches of government.

I would be a cypress, cedar, branches calligraphy brushes, divorced from desert.

It takes a divorce for one to know one knows no one, not only one's wife

but your very sons who will always choose the open flower bud.

Good, as they should. Their bones are your bones, strange bones, and a

strange selection of their words. They are Uvularia sessifolia (wild oats)

and Polygonatum biflorum (Solomon's seal). They outlast the holocaust

or not, they're made of matter. These windows need a good cleaning.

Leaf-raking. Dusting for ghosts. Ah, sweet peace, perfect rest, there are

no ghosts

              adults are trees, teens are shrubs, and children are herbaceous.