Sublime

deputized

Resilience, immanence, numen—qualities his discipline is notoriously poor in measuring.

STRANGER’S CHILD Sparrow in the cobbled street, Little sparrow round and sweet, Chaucer’s bird— or if a leaf Sparkle among leaves, among the season’s Leaves— The sparrow’s feet, Feet of the sparrow’s child touch Naked rock.

Her public reputation, like Demeter’s daughter, crawls back up from the underworld.

vigil

inchoate.

the suede heels she’d had resoled multiple times.

as if he, too, might have another hundred years or two to document what time hides forever in plain sight.

Sisyphean task,”