Grassland
Flax color patches of flash-flame
vast little grassland
disturbance come
in splinter light
intractable
*
morning dispersed
on encrusted earth
in gravel shade
casting mineral
hold given over
to whatever survives
*
misgiven views
in diagonal glare
to the far mount
above the patter
of pronghorn
luted beyond
the lashing Tyvek
house-wrap
from a single wide
exoskeleton
*
over winter disruption
given on proximity
long unbroken
underspread
of ground
in miles
to the great elevation
the other name
for eye and throat
for land tilt
delivery
*
here is the fiend
of family
ferocity
here is the god
to reversing
genesis
as again to grace
once-broken
blades of agave
with blooming
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Roberto Tejada
Carbonate of Copper
Fordham University Press, 2025
