Back dropped
              blue-grey clouds
                   warm lull
            a spot of sun
   in this clearing
               of moment transferred—
   a perfectly peaceful point
           of view—

   Larry Eigner's window.
          Salute you Larry!
                  Seagull cries 3 times
              and then the crow,
      also a reef grazer,
   slowest, easiest,
           then smooth layers exhale—
   Don't let yourself get away
                   from that conversational
                tone line of  the reef emerging
            low tide, windless

                                               February 2, 1996

                                             —Joanne Kyger