SEPT. 6

Feeding the grackles
near the apple trees

full of new unquiet
and beginnings

with lesson plans
of geometric distance

in your new leather
case of schedules

you write initials
on doubled up walls

turned away
from summer's graffiti

salt lick squirrels
hit and miss

on pine comb grounds
acorns fall

from oak branches
on rays of first light.