i. anatomy
you stretch forth a root into the darkness / open the light
and ride through it / with you sway the trees / desire
a moving target / a road / a rod cone-tipped / enrobed
in darkness
ii. architecture
wider than the canopy of me / fingers
threading through the earth / dirt
is all around / and dark
/ tilled by the blind
a path unpaved make path / make way
iii. growth
the creaking of the trees
from seed / is sown
I’ll bring you water / I’ll bring you
flowering moss /
you burrow-climb
the night / divide
iv. regulation
I want to ask about the rain / nimble-fingered
and without / aim xxx/ one thing
blossoms / another / falls away
/ tap / tap tap tap
I ask
v. specialization
you who rise
out / originate
from stem / from leaf from /
/ who clover
/ who strawberry / who willow
willow me /
anchor and reach / heavily-branched /
/ thicken
above ground / breathe dew
or store / short-lived though you may be / but fine
hold close /
beneath the soil
/ swell
/ salt
is no emblem of the soul / nor stolon
shade leaves /
/ pickleweed
vi. depth
in such darkness / I cannot read your eyes
and I don’t know / what storm I’m from
the world is wrapped in flame
/ and there is drumming / in the trees
given pattern
/ given form
every day another / doorway
I hunger for
/ I cannot name