Patterns



Beyond the saplings’ underbark
nibbled green behind her at snow’s depth,
the rabbit rides her soft feet softly home
on the shallow crust that hides
her nest under the ground

while I raise each webbed sole,
crosshatching the undersnow
leaving frozen chunks that mark the path
and wishing memory were dumb
as an egg before it met the womb

yet I know I will find again
the old unconscious tracks
over open spaces
and drifts that hold no mark.

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