1.
Ocean opens

For every creature unveiled

It’s opposite in the absence
Erasure become object

Teeming measures of salt

Rock-bound
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In the context of calling out

Thought’s misstep from mouth
Sincerity

Watching its fluency
Simple gestures adopted by branches

The decision to be moved
*
No longer pebble atop pebble
Mineral word solidified into muscle
A thickness greeting

Its own uncovered resemblance
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Or at the condensed will of everything

One moment a contained gusting

Another, touch between two passing forces
Aligned intention

The duration of wind that begins
Back to those branches again
*
It goes on

Setting as time demands
The implied tree

Fated, gutted 
Sea turned land

Where stride subtractions

Of what is known to live







2.
Dimmed propulsion

Recognitions of recurrence
If only to signal parallelism

A sea alongside a road, the road

Presented as its own habit of force 
Tacit occupancy 
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Tracing duplicate paths

Accidental summit

Seen passing the opposite way
Downcast

Where crags or budding brush

Became the body’s stance
Forceful verdict

Grassy extent
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To distribute a certainty:

Sod migrations

And the nerve-wrapped sky
Presence intersects

Decisions made on the ground

Slight turnings and fits of choice
Under elemental flight

Scansion of the blows

Wings cast