i.
under an adventurous sun under
high-voltage elevated cables under
pylons and over bay
we run carefree but careful
to step not slide on splinters
until salt-sponged planks drop us
until we find rescue in the fastest stream
iii.
the conversation rolled between saunas,
out into the street and spread
across the table in a wealth
of small dishes like insights combining
in the mouth to fullnesses to
satiation and temperature posturing
if not positioning or if position
only ever lower humility
in the space of a happening
each of the three taking turns
to be the trellis and the flowers
the shadow and its shadow cod
and its knowing butterfly