The hills are thick with creamy fog these late-August mornings, then fade into brilliant blue. My dreams have been performed in airports and church vans. I rode a mechanical bull pleading to get to where I thought I wanted to go.

a different summer morning
you joked that Red Delicious
was put there by a witch

I’m disciplined to distraction
the peek of a thigh
roses at the edge of on-ramps
yielding to pressure
…