… “You’ve heard that it was said,” you liked to start, reciting worn traditions to the … Michael … "You’d take our ways of life apart / and reconstruct them into … Poem
"Knowing // it is love that drives the sun, the moon and all the stars, I went / down to the inner room, / laid out the notebook, called on the Spirit"
"Step away a while, and walk // in silence, slowly, round the parkland lake; / there are bulrushes at water’s edge, their ancient / presences and generations"
"our neighbor declares it black cherry arbitrarily seeded / by a random bird though our two young children insist 'on purpose' / insist 'god' and 'goldfinch' wrought this perfect spot"
