Agave Maria

Where birds

listen intently
a garden gate stands amid a plain triganomaly.

the oldest living life forms are chaparral

Note the house the agave Americana lives next to
stands two stories high, its stalk grazing the roof.
After the plant blooms it dies.

          the oldest living life forms are chaparral
the oldest living life forms are chaparral
the oldest living life forms are chaparral
the oldest living life forms are chaparral
the oldest living life forms are chaparral
the oldest living life forms are chaparral

Where birds–
picture intently

On the third Wednesday in ordinary time

Half a woman, really, off a balcony

in the early December of another hemisphere.

Danced or frozen

amid a well-placed healthy skepticism:

The letter “P”

Where birds listen intently, [how dry it is].

Where spines, hair, …