Small Returns
Time as a Library
excursion and return
a hand pulls out a book
and other hands replace it later
Ancestors: Womb Spell
not one of you may come here
asking to be born
One Prayer
may night not be heavy
may heavy not be lonely
may lonely not be nightly
may nightly not be only
Coming and Going
you went away
and then you returned
but I didn’t see
the bend where you turned
Ancestors: Staying and Going
army marry
factory farm
ridge and holler
town and water
some of us roamed far
Making Books
bone folder
fold my bones
bind me up
take me home
Sleep Prayer
make me still
let me heal
steal voluminous hours
when you need
pass in and out of the door of dreams
please
November
prop-tailed woodpecker
wheedles and twists the bark
a small murmuration
pushes close and pulls apart
coming and going and coming and going
before they depart
rain rain
come again
go away
another day