Dispatch #12

Name by Name

Name by Name

"A short prayer pierces heaven."
—The Cloud of Unknowing

as if bewilderment
found a form—

this bent blue
balloon flower

*

the blur
between
blue and green

the mountain
smothered

in summer’s
color

*

tulip poplar leaves
seethe with wind—
what other world

*

leaning in
to find
a thread
where
the light
ends
forsythia

*

late summer—
a candle flame

mimics the shape
of the sound
of the rain

*

heatwave
a wasp

out of
synch

with its
shadow