Yard (Three Angles) by Joseph Massey

for Pepper Luboff


       In the indent of 
a day: wagging
       ferns modulate
glass table glow

       gnats needle
light’s surface
       a texture
warmth conjures

.

       a shattered 
ceramic toilet
       a bulge 
in the overgrowth

       field’s far edge
palpitates 
       pink ribbons
tied to stumps

.

       squirrel-clatter
caught in 
       unnamed tree’s
canopy

       blue jay
geometry
       in the direction
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