for Robert Hass
spring abrupts

like an open palm

walk through redfern

stop to watch jasmine spill

again & think of yr grandmother

pink fragrant naturalised

climbing the scraptractor

at the gardentop

the beggar replies to an empty hand

it’s just good to see you happy

& wonder again

how far things have gone
looking across heidelberg

from der philosophenweg

its dawn

a bruised ecstasy of words

resumes trestles –

after psychosis its winter

a sparse snow

descends a valley

each word returning an elegy

firtree snowflake tiergarten cigarette

their loss their loss their loss

again

dubiously pended

 anonymous snow
at the hauptbahnhof

a flock of rosering parakeets

call unmistakably

the greenest thing in words

mutter geographies of songbird lineage

& what symphony of error

what lyrate slippage

pilgrimed

your feral song?
the antipodal drift

slips another arc

death in a missed wingbeat

lose time give it

now again is openpalmed

welcome eclipse welcome

 jasmine

remember love

love everything lo——