Windy Day at Bright Shore

Words’ favorite descriptions

Of the brain, the human brain,

Include Marianne Boruch’s

Brains imaged as wild roses

Growing / next to the sea, their

Strange / dual citizenship

Neatly terraced and landscaped.

We don’t get enough of that,

Of names that nod images

Of brains as they see the world

In themselves, unseen themselves

In the world at five a.m.

Reading poems about seascapes

Reimagined in bright sun.