from the archives

For a second, I couldn't find the files for my grad school thesis anywhere. Thank God I found them on my external hard drive. Enjoy this old precious gem.

Change

Consider the hau tree
positioned crookedly
on the side of the
red dirt road,
heart-shaped leaves,
buds blooming yellow
in quiet early morning,
orange under midday sun,
and, by nightfall, red
petals lying in the road-
dissolving into clay.