Rivets

‘You are not your thoughts.’

Find the still point,
the naked bulb,

the white peony
unfolding

one more
inner ring

while not being
exactly open.

An animal needs
something to watch.

*

What I saw
as a formation

of fighter jets
in the distance

was, instead,
a blow-up

of rivets
on a panel truck.

*

Thinking is hard,
but thoughts just happen

because of the near
rhyming
of sparks.