as if it were
something     the wind
flapping

rainwater
braiding
down
down

dripping
tinkle on tin

the smell of it
ozone thick

the lowering womb

no blue shot
of sky
to disturb or
disclose

the way it was
then
those billion years
forming
some thought
of a
thought

ancestral
lap-lapping

the flooded grave

bud
stem
blood
bone
a hay-gone
hank
of hair

the roiling seas
inviolate

the dunes
...a sigh

--Jo VonBargen 2011


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