Nancy Davies

Patterns
September 7, 2011

Rooster, birds, bells, agua agua agua, GAS GAS!

the day begins to summon me; I haul my bones

overboard, the bed my boat, my ship shipwrecked upon a shore

where waves mimic passing highway tires, hiss wet sounds

I knew when I was young and lived beside the sea.

Where I walked the shore the sand wrinkled at low tide

like now my skin, the low tide of my life. How strange it is:

every pattern replicated, mackerel sky, drying sand, aging skin,

as though creation gods imagined fewer forms than we can.

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