The Fly and the Helm, 2026
Umbrella neck leg tied to push pin red // Black horse hair strung on two-sided web // One inch pink splayed in three, three inch pink seat of swing // spot Winter’s cherry - specks of sheep! // Wrote a letter in pencil in rose stem scroll // Colored charcoal on drawer, a mountain, from next door // Between Blue of Atlantic, hawser of pine // To a mouse those thorned stars are hung bedside // Driftwood look westward meet water in its middle // I too stood close to the river, and the middle I saw