Under clouds cold as
blue clay, light seeps into
milkweed so it speaks
monarchs, and the wind
sings stones with voices
from where there are none,
from even before there was
anything to give voice,
calling in that gull’s shadow
angling in then gone
sumptuous as this pebble
balanced on my palm.
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