all creatures are born

through deep air or deep water

not knowing how to grow

or be seen

the shallowness of the membrane

separates matter from its context

a bud mimics the ecstasy of sun

to return its favour

resemblances are sympathetic:

the flowering body of a fungus, on trees

is delightfully called

a conk*

the future, cradling a fresh there-ness

nourishes the eyes with a pearly field of nothing

a drop, waiting

for a lizard to slink away

promising its tail to somebody who noticed it

the split second that decided its fate

a dewdrop so heavy you know it’s the sky embodied

a berry becomes the body of its blossom

“you ate!” says the comment

to the late summer’s field

a paganistic prayer sounds over the landscape

Care

Orbits

the Never

Known

what you answer is:

i know this planet from somewhere

*meaning, in some vernacular, an ear