New Year’s day

some leftover darkness
in my mug

shapes in the clouds

a lone kayaker raising her phone

lost time

the scarab remembering
its wings

I dreamed a giant silk moth fluttered into a museum

and joined its life-like relatives on the wall.

I place myself

on the Underground map uneasily, wondering how such ideal points and lines can add up to anything resembling the surface.

Do the inhabitants of the past ever tire

of our clueless questions and our rapacious gaze?

cloudy Sabbath

all eyes are on the bright
heirloom tomatoes

Purely cosmetic.

A found videopoem.

Audubon walk

admiring a pheasant’s
dismembered foot

that faint overlay

on every cellphone photo—
my own face

January moon

we startle at each other’s faces

fresh paint

a butterfly lands on the ladder to have a taste