IMPROVISATION#258

Hearing a thunder strike
along Bar Harbor Beach
up in Maine
taking market face photos
reaching out
with food and drink
to laughing ice fishermen
often cut out of society
in the hinterland
hearing a continual birdsong
from Canadian sea voices
on a February morning
out here in the cold ports
amid salt piles
near lifting lost cars
on the highway
after winter's
last snow storm
in the neighborhood
we shadow uncongenial drifts
from a freezing network
as we spy a forest bear
unwinding in the woods.