how else could it be done

I fell on a coin,
felt its worth press into me
far from hands and home

"In that case," she choked across the smoldering bulkhead, "we'll try the last resort first."

beacon star undone
warning running rowing won
face the backwards sun

dimitri challenges the elements

dark baloonmanship
against the hounding dogwind
billow half way home

herbal lessons half a life

basil darling, don't
regret the small forever,
never sever all

country gnome and city gnome are at it again

flicker flicker, red
is sicker, while we bicker
up the broken shoe

a big thing presses on

bear paw patter fall
forge along a rocky wall
in the evening light

careful revelers

dry-head amorphous
melody of darkest grape
against untold flame

too much is all the same

coloring the mind's
mercurial transmission
inside, overflow

living grasp, the air

gustly atmosphere
and through it trembling bristles
course sky-torn sailors

to prefer what is not lost

witness the miser
once two-note talon turning
underneath the mount