ALT Song for Kristi Wood is good For a long time Flowers, Weeks If you change The water, cut off The low greens so They don’t rot In the vase. The first time I saw Your face was through a window, A perihelion feeling That revisits my bones Every day. I only remember pieces Of the prayer: Thee by that exceeding pain, A meadow you hold open Like a door

ALT Haiku Near the window a light flashes and I am very sad

ALT Mile Ten The book is a butterfly, migrating cellar door. In the open wound, words gather roses for a name. A drum beats faster, fervor of ache & gape. Brutal rain on the lawn of every house. A heart beats slowly, welling up in speech for no answer.

ALT DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH That glint on the heap Its tongue licking your eye Nothing without the heap Widen the field and see its teeth

ALT Chainsaw Poem 22 I would never admit it but sometimes looking out the window I miss the trees.

ALT A Want I can't think of anything specific really only to hold you as the night sky fills with UFOs. * * *** * * * ***