NANCY DAOUST

window lets Tuesday sun

dapple warm shadow floors
cats into maximum heat
philodendron-birken stretch
almost touch strange heart-shaped
succulent that stays same yet greens

i follow       light’s suggestion
                    out of house

                        pause above Fairbank Lake
                        flex like birken
                        feel into prickling lichen
                        hot smell sun
                        hard berries just
                        tingeing cool green
                        leaves thrusting
                        blue uv light