Chapbook · Poems

OPPORTUNITIES: FIFTEEN MINUTE CHECKS

OPPORTUNITIES: FIFTEEN MINUTE CHECKS
I
Cedar waxwings
pluck berries, ballet
among holly branches.

II
Sliding under the car,
I unplug the oil pan,
blackness streams
from the hole.

III
Six goslings hide
under their mother
for warmth.

IV
Someone ties a noose
in a hospital gown, slips

from the tub’s edge.