Healing circles of the earth
coil to let in the dark sun.
Forms of laughter and thought
are careless with their genius
in the forest.  Two young men
are sharing a seasoned jug
with their crooked arms, crooked mouths,
with the canopy's familiarity
many caresses deep on the millions
of needles, millions of grains of sand
that made them up from the thick
and swampy air of all that placed them here.
Foreheads and eyes ladled out
by the spoon manufacturer.
Avalanches of cool kissing breeze
in this rented valley.  Princely the disarranged
clouds, the thrones of remembrance,
time-positions of eyes eyes eyes
in a crumbling zodiac.
The measure of sadness in love making music
deck of thieves emptied only of bile
by the nakedest man
on a plume of impenetrable water,
where his footrests are proportioned by careful molecules
and the tug of the body sets the bibliography free
to tatter the landscape
scraping notes from each leaf, each guide-thrust
of emerging tree.
Ground and its parallel broken sky
by the birth of departure.