Dieting aids posture,

as reading helps thought.

They may be forced

into another shape, and the world

around us becomes black

with notions of the ground.

A snow fence imposes that sleep

All along it snow has chosen different shapes

of busyness. It has been prevented

from staying where it wanted to.

Blue sky will pay for this

music from an old Victrola

singing about a lover and his henchman

and the woman hiding in a barrel

under the bridge.

In the west it all turns to meat.

A few are grateful, more are bored.

We could have lunch by that lake,

drink beer from a nearby farm.

And the actors walked with me

to those calms.