December 26

Boxing Day
space
beneath the Christmas tree

Archimedes

late December
the weight of my body
in the emptying bath

carcass

winter feast  
ravens  
at the roadkill rabbit

186°C

making caramel
the heavy sky
darkens

in spate

swollen river
neither coming
nor going

into thin air

bare tree  
leaflessly rooted in  
the grey sky