Paper Birches, Whole Scroll

Paper birches

Tentative summer light

Far northern feeling

Health and such relief

I walk the edge

Of a wide brackish outflow

She behind me

More slow, more cautious, no

Shifting shalestones

Under our sneakers

Bright, brittle, and hissing

Bright and brittle sky

Shifting shalestones

Bright, brittle, and hissing

Shifting shalestones

Bright, brittle, and hissing

Shift

She tells me smiling

Full with a twoness

At dusk, the lights dance for us

Like fire, and we dance too