Mid-winter

rests at the

garden’s core

 

trees bare brackets

sky strait jacket

beige:

 

birds gorge

red berry

provender.

 

I met you

swathed in wool

flak jacket

 

thermal full- spirit

human bathed

in blood & bone.

 

Now I’m fire fighting

panic where the scars

that we both bear

 

turn into, too

heavy load.