Dominique Hecq #16--Check

the child clambers on the skittish black

horse, nervous of its staccato breathing

twitches the reins     says I know this

is wrong     expects some sudden buck

ing     rearing    up

                   ending

the notion of dying is

so close the child can't steady his hands

yes, even dismounting could be fatal

(check): I've never played chest before

Magdalena Ball #20 brittle birds responding to Dominique Hecq #15 Small cosmogony

brittle birds 

           responding to Dominique Hecq #15 Small cosmogony

there’s no starting point for this 

it’s unkind and you dancing

so wildly I don’t know what

but this is what matters   the moon

                      unmapped space

somewhere waking birds 

just coming into

themselves 

        knowing its there

glass compacted into 

                      a window 

pretending to be water 

a bowl

casting a wish that looks like 

a skipping stone 

everything is mutable

               can be converted to a new 

substance a new life

even this table which 

formed the heart of our kitchen

seemed as solid as darkness 

as scarred as love