Take it wide
and take it within:
Praise every break in the din:
Praise the sea bean on my mantle,
smooth emblem of personal disaster. Praise the stones
from other coasts:
granite, marble, white & sand.
Praise the candleholder cut
from the drupe
of gray-plum fruit.
Praise the loops of the
unknown hand.
Praise the lamp & the whelk, the round
mirror of my hour,
the blue whine of my Timex clock.
Praise the simulacra of a woman diving
in. Praise the shadow of a swallow
from last year’s
midsummer festival.
Praise the swallow’s exeunt left.
