from Ordinary Work

1. Meanwhile

trespassers practice
their craft—

to say what they see there
unboundaried

visions
ethereal airs
the erotics of attachment

the hand-
kerchief dropped
and again fetched up by another hand

certain colors
uncertain
light

precursors
intruders
on the serried edges of
the self

the bitter daughter
bite of dog
edge of the trees
bucket of water: the drink

sudden famil-
iarity
and its opposite

the natural object: the trees the stones
and you—