Root Cap

memory

for every root in the dark a life-ring is what death
lays aside & for every leaf the light for every root
what tree-rings is a future a sun will never mark

a dead redwood

fruit

death  is a heat in the deep where a root is to yield
to sleep the power of fire

and the cold there stored?
the use of a future that will bear a deep a stone of desire

the sun

the bright dark (or mourning's glory)

 

an empty seed bares a flower
as if the dark is an effort of what seeks appearance
& as if to appear (the presence of what will
cover again the endeavoring brilliance)
is, in the distance, what bares nothing

the spot