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from yezo garland



a reply between streams
of burning doors complete memory
resting in your breath’s heart

sound of sun after inheriting breath


intention of grass bending over your shoulder


wind folding
inherited memory

deer faint
through black trees


remembering rain carry light along spine



distant circle of trees below mountain ridge


grass covering distant eyes grazing winter’s
valley complete sound and motion
of speaking beyond its description in memory


snow in a tree of sky
listen to water opening light


4 bleeding jewels in mirrored palms



wrap sleep’s tendon over warm pews burn wind
through wandering sky blind motion
of sun above distant ridge


night returns in falling eyes of a flowering field


black eyes
clearing distant
valleys


black and gold tongue balanced over river mist



rounded black rocks against
motion of folding clouds your thin pews burning
remainderless in exchange
hooves threading trees of open fields


shadow of bird’s wings circling memory of mountain


snowpath interior
migrating
black tendon


roar blacksun spirits speaking with bridging bells



deer with wind with silent and wheeling voice

enclosed in your action a memory of dawn and night


walk your winter through loose sleep
crossbudding slopes seaward


one silence
overgathering

what memory-paths
you’ve crossed


moon breaking across river with waking child



circling light nested in deer’s eyes

climbing light outside sound of memory


a sky tendon reaching outside your inheritance
seizing hooves over a mountain of light


thin and distant
trees folded into
silent embrace


carry bodhisattva’s light with crossing family
world's arrival in opening eyes of yezo deer