Poem from the woods of Laguna

Earthly vessels against the sky

The tree limbs are lungs full of the desert's breath

Branches (bronchi) tremble and sway in the wheezes

dusty with thoughts of cactus and dried sea beds

The trunk delivers love notes whispered from sky to roots

The rocks below feel the vibration of the universe 

coursing through bark and leaf

Jays chatter into the breath of the north,

responses to the shadows of birdsongs on the wind