Before and After III

Before:

Fox Ascending

The other day
I saw a fractal
oval white cloud
nailed to the bleached
blue sky like a day-
old fox corpse clinging
to a farmer's fence.

[c. oct 2008]

And after:

Fox Ascending

A fractal oval white
cloud nailed to bleached blue sky
like a day-old fox corpse
strung on a farmer's fence.

Before and After II

Before:

What You See When You Close Your Eyes

Depends upon the day.
__Sometimes it is the darkness of eyelids
__Sometimes it is the orange brightness
____of eyelids, or the red-heat glow
____of tired eyes.
But sometimes
it is the cobalt-verdigris sea, shifting
as you look.
___________Or the span of space
in the broken road crashing out
into the deep-blue air, deafening
in the difference.
________________Or the chain
of clouds that is the sky's
reflection of the crescent
curve of the tropical chain.
[cayo hueso?]

After:

What You See When You Close Your Eyes

Depends upon the day--
darkness of eyelids
orange brightness
red-heat glow of tired eyes

the cobalt-verdegris sea, shifting

the span of space
in the broken road
crashing out into
the deep-blue air

or a chain
of clouds--
the sky's
reflection of the crescent
curve of the tropical chain.

Before and After

Before:

[untitled]
The perpetually shifting balance
of the egret prowling the hedge-tops
in search of food. What wonders
would be seen if we could see
all at once, but vision is itself
a limit, and we cannot see
all-at-once, often not even
little-by-little.

After:

Equilibrium

Shifting balance
in the hedgetops--
egret grazing.

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