Followers

1


This blank sky

between parallel wires

reserved

for penmanship

practice.


2


The cold rays
of the bristle cone,

she writes — 

she who admires
imitations.

Such sparse coronas
surrounding

every knobby
fist!


3


“Naught”

must follow

“for”

which will come

after “all.”

Come as “always,”

walking backwards
Source: Poetry (January 2015)