Tiger Swallowtail

found in all eastern forests

favorites include willows and cottonwoods not

the hot black pavement

where broken winged it hops flutters

and I here have a kettledrum stomach

I am round around my navel

driving along I've forgotten which errand now

Sometimes my beauty pushes out of my belly

Sometimes I hear it first crying near me

and then it suckles

Tathagata will be my next child

Even in this bearing

I remember always the thin-ness against the blackness and hotness

I remember the fluttering yellowness

Fons et Origo

I am Brigit and I will deliver

this

forever spinning

even without all of you.

Bulbpulse

Coming back from digging up bulbs

the sun was not risen

i was first there

dug up hundreds of them for replanting

and a flood of loved ones who could use these bulbs

came to me

their faces with their needs

of course you will say when i come home

these are not money

this will not save our family home

i understand

i will burst into tears

i will say "all these beautiful flowers will open"

which will frustrate you

and i will say

"if you could feel my pulse under the frozen ground

they would get planted".