Different Things
1
Steel hardly known what a hint is, but for the thistledown
all you have to do is breathe. And a patch of new cement
will remember a touch forever.
2
One time I asked Agnes to dance. How she
put up her arms—I thought of that this morning
fifty years later.
3
Salmon return out of a wide ocean
and find their home river all the way back
through the bitter current.
4
Under sequoias, tiny blue flowers, dim
all day and almost invisible, grow out of moss.
They reach deep into night for that color.
