An Ecology
Dry Maine pine
needle
dropped
late
Leadbetter’s
August afternoon
into the open
spine
—undislodgeable—
of my own
Collected
hardcover
Niedecker.
Inkling
Open field. Late sun.
White kite riding the thermals.
In the field, no shadow
and my shadow run.
Three in June
South Truro
Whippoorwill wakes me
4 a.m. whippoorwill
whippoorwill sends me
back into sleep.
Squirrel on the feeder
feeding down
upside hanging
knows it’s not a bird!
Fat grackle lifts
off dead lotus
limb still shaking