11:39AM, Grand Haven


what bursts in the very moment of bursting is image
-Gustaf Sobin

Summer 
seems lessened—

buds of cup-
	          and-saucer scale
	          to frayed
		                    extent.



*



Watching us

	          the gull can
limn from

the edible
the purely 

	          ornamental.



*


The slow yellow
	          sun hones
high   wisps
from   low   threats—

planes
of a charged hour
bearing down
	
	          on our
wet heads. 



*



Parched beach grass
	          holds the dune—

eleven lasts
	          all morning.
No meaning

to assign yet
	          to alewives 
laid eerily by 
		                    the tide
two-by-two



*



	          or your eyes
as you stare,
hardened to

(not the blue
	          of the Lake
nor the blue
of the sky

	          but) the blue
	          of a gray
rock 

worn
memento smooth.



*



Through
bowlful redcurrant 

breakfasts
	          I will recall this
		                    minute—

steered to its brink
then                     
    sank