Of this moment

June 21, 2002

primaveral,
when the trees
are tuning forks
struck into the tones
of birdsong,
the squirrels
descend the trunks
like beads
of hot wax,
each onto the floor
of his own
little room
sans walls or roof,
lit by a thousand
candles
in the dazzling
yellow house
of morning.