Stairs Up Down
Step by step stairs lead upward to a door cut out of the wall imposing do not enter yet leaving a method for entrance if you so dare to knock or dare even more to turn the knob and open the Pandora’s box behind or the treasure chest buried only for you to discover. Step by step stairs lead down to the ground flat as windows witness retreat in backward reflection fading with distance like fog stretching for sunshine to dissolve it away. Stay Still Tiny limb of evergreen needles waves like a feather dislodged from a crow as it flew into weeds away from the speeding car, away from the deer carcass away from the road. Indignant as it shakes its wings and struts out of the weeds looking left, then right, then left again before hopping to its meal again. All the while evergreen needles stay still on the tiny limb wavering in the car’s after dust.
Tree Carcass
The carcass of the tree lies in the lake shallow enough for branches to snag. The carcass of the tree desires the water surface to ripple above its body so silt washes against it, covers it in blanket layers, prepares it for a petrified life concealed for centuries until desert sand sifts away the shore, and a limb scratches through the surface like a hand attached to a buried-alive victim below. The carcass of the tree ripples up from the dunes like concentric rings expanding its life.
Flight of the dragonfly 