Granted

Three rabbits practice running
from nothing at golden hour
between warehouses and train tracks
barely listening.

Heart Enough

I saw a woman drawn
with negative space
on the red bathroom stall
scraped into the metal
with black pen.

Vantage

We cannot see the airplanes,
but we hear them
behind the gray sky
getting as far away
as fast as they
possibly can.

Burnout

Bushes shake along the road
and the silver stars
seep light into this summer night.
My car runs loud and its body
suffers streaks of dark rust,
dark like red clay in the split
hills of Tennessee.

Tension

Five cables hold the power line
to the ground by the soccer field
and swing set by the Protestant church.
Still the pole bends like the flexing
wood of a bow drawn back
to the cheek of a hunter,
but there is no need for
unsightly acts like that
out here.

Canine

Coyotes leave tracks
in the wet grass between
warehouses and water towers.
They stay far enough out
for the most part nobody
bothers them.

Kronos

Two old men roll
in the gray mud
wrestling over
possession
of an hourglass.