JENNA CARDINALE

Proceed to Other Values

Wayfarer scent and cowlick
petals. Everywhere instantly
greened. It’s a season
of easy arousal, of candy
colors on the lake.

Oh, did you know there are different kinds
of birds. A small child describes
a pigeon. But I prefer
that gray one from further away.

Then a too-proud cormorant
lands and stands still
on a drifting pleasure
boat. Bold cresting.

Can an abstraction
create capacity. Where
do you want to go.