tonight
I saw you looking at me
it all changed
birds left broken
shells
under the nest
and the mink
out of its hole
in the world
seeded by aliens
devoured
the starlings lullaby .
I saw you
looking at me
but I don’t know
how to rise with you
the dessert rose
of cemetery road
in a jar on our table
decayed when you
gave the passepartout
to another
and I couldn’t get in
with the river
of my love
im not strong enough
against her current .
looking at me
I saw you
trying to spread dawn
from your jagged fracture
and I wanted
i really wanted
to touch you
but I heard the birds
scream
on the road above
respendent
in their escape .
credits : first two photos by my daughter , Denise Thomasin Photography
