replacing a tear

-sage smoke

the room full of prayer

 hard day

 -I decide to pick Ganesha

a rose petal

willow tree 
- stooping slowly 
to fill her water jug

redwood stump 
three thousand rings 
your monument

buddha's smudge stick
-godless mosquitos
kept at bay

summer nears
the sirens
grow louder

the geese have returned
and still
you are gone