dawning

dawning
october 1990

Image of the cast of day, with full credit to the image taker

all
that could
turn the cast
of our days
around
show the metal
to have face
the eye
to give warmth
hints
in that dawn.

my ear
stands upon
the shoal
of rain
breaking up
the dark.
a bird drops
note
i hold it
amongst the
shove and

burning

burning
on the destruction of the Amazon rain forest

A Weathercat snap of the fire-entranced

we
loved the
flame
it lit
it warmed
it cooked

we
became traders
in flame
sold
bought
it in
vast
burnings

animal
rippling
face to
another face
in generation
plant rivering
oxygen climbing
in kind to another
kind are lost forever
to our ravings in fire,
their treasure of kill