Hot breath of the horn / purple lips a fierce crocus / stealing winter's stage
It's not the mermaid / but evidence of her tail / gathering on his floor
By now, Central Park / greased gold by hands of Midas / surrenders en vogue
Don't worry, New York / I've forgiven your tacos / matzo state of mind
On the evening train / woman starts and finishes / a pint of Half Baked / tomorrow it snows
Already this year / absorbing loss with thick salt / a snow deficit
January leaves / park reservoir frozen still / the geese haven't budged
If only groceries / had legs like muscular fumes / of cigarette smoke
Sinewy winter / practicing your shy ballet / birds your curtain call
There is a champagne cork in the laundry basket that landed there over Christmas / it was such a happy time / I leave the cork there to remind me
Remember me this / all your amber chamber holds / grain, speck, freckle, scar
Seabirds in Harlem / sand rough edge of night to dawn / stale snow a tide foam
Well past bloody Ides / if not, winter, then for what / throw them a crocus
Each surface quiets / the sensorium beneath / waiting to be plucked
Time told by water / still and then ringing with life / bee in daffodil's ear
April in orbit / birthmark a Jupiter moon / shadows of old stars
Solo swan summer / knowing solitude and not / crocus to lilac
Gingko leaf abacus / measuring time in tandem / August to August