MOUNT VERIER - ANNECY, FRANCE.

1. Stone.

I expect lichen.

I expect lichen, but this is a different trickle--
a slim round of dusky smooth
globules pressed together, close beggars
that press their seamlessness together like fiddleheads
again in the need for kneading of fingertips
despite the relentless solidity.


2. Milk.

Pours whitecold and kitteny, stone washed in cream
the granules prickling through
my mammalian attempts--

to cultivate blotched gourds, buttery yellow
in the softened residue of cream
that crack with headaching hammers
spitting thready pulp from slits and saucered seeds--
to grow cattails sidethrusted and sweetflag--
to sweep away this stony smoothness with rough cream. 


3. Foliage.

The curling in at night   the small old dry,
the you-will-be-me   the learning.
The creamy instruction to formulate
valleys and spotted day lilies with snapping stems.
Indistinction and naked hyacinth and when broken
crumbling to the soft roll of hills.
Not so craggy now   not the granules
and the shatter   not the metamorphic pressing within,
but darkening sap   tongues of cats   the beetle�s eyelash
the everlasting green attack   xylophones in juicy arcs.  





4. Fauna Mammalia.

Frogsplay in the fingers of the falling
gravelly knees that preceed the hands in impact
fever that presses in
a thumb that grates half damp skin
the sun of you
the grey dry heat of you
velcro fur floating beads in its mist
that clung to us mouth first when we left
the sticky river halfway up the mountainside
those red wet welts in rose-soft skin
where teeth come prickling, trickling in. 



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