Plant-Animal-I
Terry L. Persun

Before the houses, the plans:
two men stand close
reading the same blueprint,
pitting its color against the sky's.

Their tracks lead from the road
and back. Their eyes
subtract trees from the site,
fill in the tributary
of the stream that feeds
the taller grasses and small animals
when it's not dry.

ISBN 1-882983-17-3
26 pages/$6