a crude meniscus scales the cliff
towards galaxies found in an oil spill
hallucinations cracking
and connecting
in the sky
new growth is protean
and convincing in its newness
and maybe it's always been this way
where you can try so many things
but the last takes priority
on this the plateau'd earth
we are the mesafauna
and all
our skills
are hard skills
but this doesn't mean
we have to be hard people