Far Away

Atop Mount
Timpanogous
goats graze.

I plow paper
and shuffle
them to order.

Sunflower Seeds

The calm of sun casting
shadows of arching trees
does not cast out death,
nor does the balm of lake
water ease all burdens,
and yet here we are
with sunflower seed offerings;
the more we have,
the better we breath
and accept and luxuriate
in the calm of sun casting
shadows of arching trees,
wounds forgotten.