First Confession

First Confession

a nun hurries children

past the garden

return

slowly they return

through morning mist . . .

yesterday's hills

hummingbird

hummingbird

a pause in the quarrel

as we look

gift

mohawk trail

gift shop

totems for sale

art works

1

Cezanne's Card Players—

the museum guards talk

about their break

2

video installation

the museum guard

checks his watch

so hot

so hot—

tattoo snaking

down her arm

heat wave

heat wave—

pigeon feather

on a fallen leaf

sides

bombed into rubble—

one side of a border

or the other