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 Tender medicine

this tangle of budded branch,

cherry-blossomed words.

Early Spring

Deer bloom

in the estuary,

star storm

curtained

by nightcloud.

I look for you

in the day’s

last light.

This Pot

This small pot is spring -
bright in lingering
sun and long shadow,
dried leaf and lush moss.

It holds buds of alder
and salmonberry,
skunk cabbage bloom
in wet woods.

Rain catcher,
hail collector,
keeper of winds
this spring is cupped
by warm hands.