From Willamette, a poetry collection, which is forthcoming from Knopf.

Vertical lift in the Oregon Sunshine
Makes for a perennial
Escape route

Black walnut trees are memory and skid

They drop green
Helicopters without pilots
Onto accessible sidewalks

A spoonbill or springtail marks a new bike path to the waterfall

A bus stop here
A bus stop there
Beauty & structure without a lot of work

Does everything have to be something else?

A garbage can waits for a do-over
Circuit breakers
Pop the truss

Little Lightbulb
Little
Lightbulb

I…