on any day around here

 so i took a little walk

along the perennials

and spied one slippery elm

 which i sawed down

and peeled

 and i have had narcissi 

on the table for several days

 and i washed up 

some more amazing silk

ready for the next thing

and there they sit,

other things on my mind

they look so monochromatic

 and i wrote in the journal

and found a treasure

 flattened fauna

 so small

so real,

so paperlike, leatherlike

skin

so they're all on the table where i sat for a while

between naps

as i'm in the heyday 

of a spring cold