Shadows
Another raven
ruffles night sky feathers in watery
sunlight, the kind balanced in ridge-rise
for a breathy quarter-tide
and from the aspen, looks
east, where beams slide south
to pool like wax
or shadows
cast in re-membered poppy and lupine
spilling petal-bright onto the pale drifts
like ancestral blooms
giving the day wings to ruffle.