As/Is







3.06.2004


"In the Crator of Haleakala, Maui, c. 1948"

1.
Ansel, your mid-air slab full cloud
our first
lava

in firefly letters:
Dear
f-stop

one pine breath is religion

climaxing away

one bristlecone performance

To soothsay the canyon updraft
edges for mind stripped

to finally as we know it,
but how not
go

bounding in the heavenly arc
of a violet rock
love
this final
gradation



2.
Hypnotizing, the how.

Four sun neon
vultures spiral
away
toward flood
at confluence
I am dreaming in, out,
two rivers

Here is a half moon
for Haleakala clouds
to palpate what looks
a blade of infinite
bare shoulder