Maps of trees

Maps of trees

And slates of instruction

A window flown

For your thoughts

All homeless- jostled

For shelter

Near school

The possibility of color

Ultramarine

Is thinned, synthetic

Acquired through initiation

Keep your props

To a crucifix

Flat-planed and cross-eyed

A slanted perch

Coyotes thread among us
Weaving on all fours
Free of vertical treason

Tom McGlynn

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