on the tundra
a caribou riversurging past
my inukshuk arms
carrying the midnight sun
beluga ghosts
undulate beside our boat
sea canaries
and whalebone harps
singing the horizon
seeing
with my snow eyes
opening into
negative spaces between
the ptarmigan and polar bear
blue glacier
calving into the narrows
a bloodless birth
our letting go of progeny
that too soon drift away
aurora
lithesome spirit walker
shimmering
above the taiga
rainbow ribbons in her hair
~~
after the flood
a library of drowned books
bleeding poems
the wounded words dissolving
into the memory of water
