2.

A newly formatted
raven's tongue
pops digitally out & in

through trombone beak
Texas jug band style
but overhead no newscrawl

no basslines from inland terraces
or hoots from hominid heights,
offroad daytrippers drop

from arbutus cloudtops
like badgers into a crevasse
their midwinter cushion full stop tree

bent under their towhee obesity;
the tread of a groundwater smeller
rumbles through the cellar.