Three Etudes


1.

Hope falls narrow on this thin bed —
placed narrow and brooding.
Rougissant. Effersant. Soaked.


2.

Hoaglan said Isham, and this I did
blithely —
the comical genius of the man


3.

Deep forest merganser
all seeing trussed and stippled
pot polliad inflated, huffed —
deepest
kindest