napowrimo 3

let sleeping dogs
lie with dragons
               their fires
  banked like this river
          snow vanishing
      light fades & rain
pulls green from black ground one penny
in the jar & wishes
                      like white moths
      eating holes in this
afghan made from leftover yarn from
          sweaters of teal of raspberry of
                  chokecherry picking in high mountains ever alert
                                  for bears but cougars
another matter altogether
                                                               look up!
parakeets court & mate & court & mate &
squirrels roll through the flowerbed clenched
              together one animal one ecstatic mad creature
twigs & branches everywhere swelling everywhere
                      pushing up         pushing up
                                                     wings