As the undisputed delivery system 
for this pathogen, 
you ought to be attending me, 

Whoso list to hunt it with a camera?
The Carolina parrot is extinct.
Hunted to nothing emerald.

Vital Span 
In Virginia 
Is Closed

Although the land itself is rolling and pitted,
the pole tips form a horizontal plane
flat enough to support a sheet of glass.

Believe the sullen sense that sickness made,
And broke you in its hands.

Forgive me, it is what I made of you
In squalls, in Mardi Gras and ballyhoo.

Dusk—and the shimmer on the sea
has quickened and gone still. The large,
lithe Hurricane birds soar in circles

I took the skin of my twin for a jacket,
pulled it along my legs as stockinettes,
pocketed its bones and fat in my side

From the bedroom you can see
straight to the fringe of the woods
with a cross-staved gate to re-