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Logarithms

for Miles Castle
  
1          A snail
            Wakes me from my work
            Squeaking slowly
            Across the window
            Sounding like a night bird.
            Moving closer,
            Peering out the window
            To the garden
            I see it:
            A grey snail sailing
            In its calico shell,
            Stalks rising
            And falling
            And a rubber mouth
            On the glass.
            The flat slime belly
            A rippling ribbon
            Of condensed serpent movement
            Leaving a transparent trail
            Of coagulated scum.

1          Moths
            Disturbing my light
            While reading in bed
            Then later when the lights are off
            I hear the moths bumping
            Against the window glass
            Excited
            By the light of the stars

2         Butterflies
            By the ocean
            Monarchs of the wind
            Crushed against the windshields
            Of automobiles
            Sharing the fly space corridor
            Between the blue
            And the burning trees
            The geography
            Of migration
            Bright in the air

3         The mathematics of rabbits
            And chickens and sea turtles
            Lounging on the surface
            Color grids inhabiting a pattern
            And island codex

5         A giant star
            Expanding
            Trees displacing
            The forest

8         Out in the barn
            The bats prepare
            For the evening
            Tree
            Replica