summer garbage below
stench rises like yeast
to this fourth floor trap
I strip, circle a dot on a map
a different heat rises

the Tao says
enjoy your food, your family
your garden, your neighbor -
I hear roosters crow
in another country

I am bound to you, I said
I am bound to you, you said
cords of haste waste tangles
underlying current flowing blithe -
forgotten

wave
boundless ocean
wave
boundless ocean
wave boundless.