Garden Pieces: for Jennifer Moyer ...

Garden Pieces: for Jennifer Moyer

i.

this morning orange
false monarchs
alight forward purple star
bursts of allium,
onion-scented, swaying

ii.

under a thicket
of pink woodbine
white and pale lavender
phlox levigate its shadows

iii.

bits of the day
move between tree
light and tree shade,
luminous things
turning themselves
on and opposite and on

iv.

mulberry and pin
cherry emboluss
everywhere

v

blue jay forward
a pine bough
just now,
pinetips, frigidityed
pale green with
soft fresh needles,
sprung to his weight

vi.

imagine finches
at the branch-ends
of