Vespers (23)

tautness of equator
loosens now
lessens

pressure
child offers
a story told

in present tense
everything is
stone

or
sky everything
in motion changes

what if life
were newly
minted

dandelions
left whole
in the yard

no wine from
each imagined
thirst

for
company for
joining being one

everything is lesson
listen to
teaching

become
second nature
the story erases

another probability until
we invent
this