Dan Beachy-Quick

Responses to ----

                                        for Stewart Breck

What is it damns the eye?—. Asymmetry
In ecological dynamics?—. What dams
The eye?—. Trends of the autumnal trees’
Later colorings, and on delay, migrations,
Or migrations, as the robins in November
Clamor in the Russian Olive, forgotten?—.
And who while crying out remembers
No one, not angels, not animals, no one
Hears that cry?—. Even the one crying
Doesn’t hear?—. A lever of infinite
Length can lift an infinite weight, or am I
Lying?—. A bee could land on a bloom and lift
The world up?—. Or a butterfly?—. Beauty
Reckons terror?—. O, bees—. O, butterfly—.