from TRADING RIFFS TO SLAY MONSTERS
Give & take is how the great sun sets& the moon rises, how beloved Venusglows there as if she never came too close to the sun, & as if Mercury is not a hunkof metal fused by indescribable brightness.Indeed, give & take is how our planet moves & breathes, & we at the topof the food chain hardly even notice,waiting for horses to tell us about a wave. Those who love the winds of timeknow one another the way horses knowfirst by smell, or by the same way trees breathe pheromones in the air to signalrain or a pest arriving from a distance.We have forgotten how to listen to planetary clues—water bloomswith algae, or, you’re forgetting, Mercuryin the horizon is first to carry news. I sit here, thinking like a poet, asking,Why is there water &…