SEEING

The way light stops on the side of the white house, works with bare trees to make shadows on the grass.

Clouds in their colors: yellow, purple, blue, gray. What moonlight does to snow. How streetlamps

change houses. Icebergs in context. The shapes of men and machines against the mountains and the sky.

The sawmill I passed every day and did not see until I saw it hanging on a wall, every log and wisp of smoke.

The house that anchored the old farm where last winter my old neighbor died.