Arriving at the farm is
the breeze at sunrise
A welcoming of soft light
  Poems
the calendar in a mother’s home
are the flowers on the table
  There goes Iriel down pon the Bayou
She walks barefoot, i say me o my o
  Each of us see them in
our forgotten dreams.
  We are all getting to know moon smoke, becoming familiar with heartbreak.
  I believe permanence is measured by perspiration. I am not ready to call a place home until I smell like it.
  Promise to bury me in the garden
so I can become a flower amongst trees
and also the butterfly’s wings
  “What doesn’t take thyme?”
“Oregano.”