SUMMER SIGHTINGS

1.

so strange and estranged

when tethered to their machines—

strangers on a train

2.

a woman tattooed

on the arm of a woman—

who am I looking at?

3.

trunk and branch,

one spindly line, bending

beneath a stone bridge

4.

a summer gust, a dry leaf—

a scuttling claw

along the pavement