may my mind one day
may my mind one day be open to silent
dogs who hold the secrets of stillness
the trail miles they run are better than talk
if I trot behind them I’ll let my words walk
and let my words slink away tired
and sleepy and sated and pliant
and may I lie sunning grassily
and love my lapse into hours letters-free
and toss aside sentences and syntax
so I may find whatever peace I suspect
dogs never know a vacancy in their lives
dashing through the woods wild as wordless wind
