Mule deer and mouse deer
And savor of sage and wild fennel
Called stink weed
And cephalopods and crustaceans
And diatoms and great white oaks
And the decaying trunk of oak
Home of grubs and lichen and fungus
Red-winged blackbirds and red algae bloom
Plains of grass and broad freezing forests
Prey that graze
Prey that prey
Starfish shaped like imperial crowns of thorns
Flatfish shaped like shoes
Annelids and planaria shaped like the soles of shoes
Great birds with bill shaped like shoe
In the forest and in the museum
And skeletal coral
Bones bleached in the sun
Chimney swifts wheeling before the setting sun