dear Muriel

ok, dear Muriel

your labor and democratic possibility

a poem of love or politics or balancing each discreet

image (fluttering, on the breeze)

I can tell you that I’ve wondered this myself

the array of conspicuous nature

the nature of

a decided concrete layering

of linguistic suggestion

in shades of pastoral, modified

for these new times

union of sentiment, sediment

chiseling against winter

dear Muriel, I am on your road

distinct trace, a flight of ambitious

optimism, each wing lifting in its turn

tradition of this machine, grammatical

economy of flight and return, continuous

reminder, dust settling and blown away.