Heel

the synchronization

of fleeing pelicans

 

matted mangrove roots

life, denied

 

sandbars at new moon low tide

mirror the shoreline

 

evenly rippled sand

broken, beneath

[RK, 10/18/2020]

 

Tourniquet

 

tight, tighter, tightest

lilt, loam, ligature

 

calcium and silica

is the island’s flesh

 

water is blood

air, breath

 

the interface of all three

is the heartbeat

[RK, 10/18/2020]

 

 

Correspondence

 

four handwritten pages with

printed poetry and

an unsigned post card

 

promises to continue topics de jour

and barely readable handwriting

and to discontinue standard grousing

[RK, 10/18/2020]

 

 

The Almost Moment

the joie de vivre of bicycling

through the side streets

how I’d misread the dates of the

socially distanced mini-concerts

 

cards literally fanned out

on the kitchen table

plastic containers of leftovers

ice coffee and iced tea

 

premise, preference, posture, platitudes

the certain feeling when the signals change

green turns amber, amber turns red

everything skewed and off center

[RK, 10/18/2020]