EYES ARE GOOD

EYES ARE GOOD

with youth

and

flowers

bright in the soft straw hair. . .

and leaning trees

for churches

of the young

without the benefit

of wisdom

and bills for eyes

near seas

or the guess

of great water

with salt. . .

not for dreaming

but breathing’s rise and fall

and undulation of minor

tears with salt, small-

falling to a smile.