from Against Middle Passages

Steve Light

toward the leaves
toward the leaves
keel-raced,

hand over hand
in the gauntlet
of light

tilled in the turning,
to the tilling
told

in the root-
ground,
stemmed to
turning, staved,
against
the bark

in the stemmed light
unthreaded

a tattered
sleeve

hangs in the air
caught

on a windowless
ledge

pennon of wasps

emblem of-

the dismem-
bered
sky

©  Steve Light

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Steve Light, a basketball point guard following upon Nate Archibald and Pete Maravich, is also a philosopher and poet.