Seen and Unseen

First published in Here, There, and Everywhere: Redmond Association of Spokenword Anthology, Michael Dylan Welch, editor, Redmond, Washington: Redmond Association of Spokenword, 2013.



my feet tapping the floor

of gravity’s heartbeat


a wasp nest hung to decorate the rafters

by the salad tongs of diversity


the path of sunlight across the table, up the wall, and disappearing

into the emotional upheaval of dandelions


bamboo leaves swaying, green against yellow stalks,

against the tension of sky


the smell of coffee breath puffed from your mouth

like memory’s garden hose


unlit Christmas lights along the eave

through the conjugation of fritillaries


mistaking a birdbath for a sundial at noon

while capillaries disagree on the nature of God


stones crunching under my Birkenstocks

beside the antlers of memory


flagstones cracked by tiny flowers,

by abstract definitions of hate


a rope swing silent though I expect a creak

while the muse blows its nose


the black sound of the crow beyond the copse

a home for wonder