Elder forests
that no longer exist : loom in history : are dark are green are :

my mind fills with kudzu : make mush of my thoughts :

I attempt to imagine a dark continent : I bead myself : attempt virgin wood :

Here is a shore draped with long leaves shaded blue : Here is black noiselessness :

A clearing somewhere
maybe :

I stack my thoughts : a necklace : totems : flavors :

This Eastern Hornbeam : slow moving : Ostrya – bone-like :

the removal of bones :

Imagine lower Manhattan as bare as a glacier :

I will wait for you to clear the ground :
wait for you to ease your hesitation of being responsible for clearing that ground :
Now

imagine it all too thick to enter : almost : almost
more an oyster tonguing a secret dark pearl : darker than night :
the crack of the shell : the opening mouth : it is a secret a might :
it is the smell of moss and of thick limbs : it is blacker than pitch :

Now it opens itself : Slowly :

I hang my dark America on the thought of that moment : when

the first space was suddenly there :

that is easy to imagine :

It is the peeling of a bandage :