Milk on a sun dial
trickling a broken circle
palm-lines imprinted in sand
coins with nicked edges
turning in chipped eyes.

Wheelbarrow fire crashing on tumbled grass.
Fern-tops and wasp bodies
sharp ovals linked by faint flesh
rumps on turning leather
skeleton leaves blown from the gemstone
frozen to the water of life
winged slave of the air.

The tilted doorway of a sea cave
belches oars in and out
on obscured blood.
Foam dyed by essence
painting rock with spoiled DNA.