One two three: up: and between
the metal ramp and the wooden bed of the truck,
as we shifted grips, my filing cabinet

One tear not yet large enough to spill,
upwelling at the corner of an eye, may
delve with a root of salt inside the tongue,

To see the yellow-bellied sapsucker suck sap,
to watch the oystercatcher at his catch,
and bluebird, woodcock, dickcissel, blue goose,

Dim sow is an anagram. They tell me,
"Pigs are the most intelligent of the domestic animals,"

Today we’re going to get to work on the details

The two or three times I saw Lil Wayne
hanging out at the Praline Connection
in New Orleans he had a mouth full of bling

That they come to us lit by light and shadowed with shade
sent not to earth, but through it—
that they travel poorly from their time into ours—

An issue of water from under earth
surrenders itself to light in cold arcs,
those things which by being are to emerge.

After I found my blood in trouble
I could hear its rapid
underground current swell, terrorists

In the trees from Faulkner, Calvino,
and probably as many writers
         as I was starting to know.