"Prescription"

a poem without negative side-effects

Prescription

To think through 
each word’s 
particular weather. 

To stand 
just far enough 
outside of the page.  

A field drapes 
the eye 
in limitless revision. 

How shadows
that fill the gap 
between two stones 

imply the sky’s weight.

For the curious: “Prescription” also appears in my book Decades: Selected Poems, and in the anthology The Poem Is You: 60 Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them (Harvard University Press, 2016).