snow ribbons the night behind blinds, white crackle over vinyl, black in ravines undulating silt whisks the sea, bed conversation of springs, yawn to sleep on a twin mattress, turtle, interred: orange branch to grove floor, hear-witness flutes in unbearable dawn unposessable, flesh and lavender stir in sleepy eye beds, rosebuds and breath condense warm on rickety panes, chipped beams stray suspended through poplar clouds, dissolve avocado in manila teem, damp hush to skin folds, pores, unseen burrows, pawed and pinhead heartbeats, meek but if in unison: rainfall tremendous on canvas cover, sinuous as the shanty cat spine, lilting: raking grain to wispy tail, cursive trickle over creekbed washboard scrubs, whisper sudding lace over iris-leather bed, wheat murmurs iridescent in squint-eyed flaxen wind.