Ensō
— Will Cordeiro
That summer
when the wind
meant nothing.
Flint scaled hills:
we walked a trail
up sliprock,
picked
dark sweet plump
ripe blackberries…
Cloud drift,
brushmark—
swift scumble of the dusk-light:
day’s rush,
following stacked
rocks
& wolf scat
shadowing rust & cinder crossing
scarred mineralized cliffside scree tracks.
Glint-work
of keratin in
blue feathers
of a grackle.
Box elder juniper
& thicket.
Horizon heirloomed into silk & sherbet.
Heartwreck ardor.
Boulder.
Elk.
Then all the winds beneath my skull went still.
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