Then one day she noticed the forest had started to bleed into her waking life.

There were curved metal plates on the trees to see around corners.

1.

hyperarticulated giant black ants endlessly boiling out of a heaped-up hole
in the sand

how can I
ask you to
absolve me

couldn’t stop / himself picking 
his red / lest it
pinken lest / it pale 

was it that / that glance / backward

downward / so evidently / an afterthought   

the body / enacting / its relentless

your lionskin
overcoat

look silly, look shot, look
O so American cheesecake!

What gift is this the day forces
upon the hapless tangerine tree?
It is the gift of sunlight for chlorophyll