Paper Birches, Whole Scroll

Paper birches

Tentative summer light

Far northern feeling

Health and such relief

I walk the edge

Of a wide brackish outflow

She behind me

More slow, more cautious

Shifting shale stones

Under our sneakers

Bright, brittle and hissing

Bright and brittle sky

Shifting shale stones

Bright, brittle and hissing

Shifting shale stones

Bright, brittle and hissing

Shift-

She tells me smiling

Full with a twoness

At dusk the lights dance for us

Like fire, and we dance too