In Which I Search for My Brother’s Missing Body in Ohio

Summer oaks warring on the hills     A doe partaking of  a resurrecting tulip

    Breakfast stray as my watery mind

How late the cloud of my body born here     A year spent looking for the way

     love claimed you     The moon lording from the overhang & into open fire

In days past nymphs came with their songs     The house embalmed in secrets

     Sagging shadows chilled in starlight     My life taken by the same weapon

Each night before me corralling my limbs

                                                   How often did I meet your eyes slit & thin?

Scouring these hills Fresno hangs blue as ever   Full of  your roaming corpse

    Luang Prabang heavy in silver (heart made of rain)     Mother amid

dill & mustard flowers    Early winter in the garden we each learned to lose

        What a sight to cherish in my brain!

The doe as fleeting carrion     My hunger to protect these lungs

I can’t stay for long so I’ll do this slowly

     The sun a sweet ember sleeved in the grove that shades you     My arm

        a bridge between one & me     A pledge so small I drop far & into the heat