darkness clings moving into it
nothing en-wordedin the flesh
deadened low water laps old terrors
moonlit dewless than evera breath
night pain . . .windows mist overmy soul
autumn nightI read myself deeperinto Buson
in autumn rainan ancestral threnodyof belonging
nothingoverwhelmed withmore of it
deep night:the heartbeat alsois mine
without light alone lingers
in time flashes of nightunmooned
lightning:words remainunborn
night thunder . . .ancestral bodieswarm me still
after a shithow did my forebearscome clean?
failing light –mine is the darknessthat shadows me
hippo potomonstro sesquippedaliophobia
in leaf tonesthe warmth of companyall but gone
dark autumn –decay deepens its holdover me
birth of stars –the sky means nothingin seeming blue
autumn leaves each day adazzle in doubt
leafless nowa transplant seeks outits roots
without the moonI take a leaf out ofBasho's book
by candle-lightwords fall further than where we end
all at oncethe rain until nowforgotten
name be damnedthe russet of leavesin the wind
back to thisgreenness bleedingdown each leaf
this –our bodybled