4 Poems by Paul Willis

LATE MORNING HIKE-KU Two eucalyptus: one shaggy, the other clean. Fraternal twins. *Little flower, you are your own breath mint: summergreen. *Double-trunked oak, you are now doing the splits— one self holding sky, the other reaching across the stream. * Sun, so bright within the pool, you bring these striders, one at a time, to sudden glory. *Leaf of toyon— dark-green above, light-green below— why don't you turn over for an even tan? *Santa Cruz, you are an island dream at noon across the channel, ready to wake into clouds.OLD PAIROld pair of eucalyptus, the trail passes between your pillars,an

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