For D.
Groans going all the way up a young tree
Half-cracked and caught in the crook of another
Cease. All around the hill-ringed, heavened pond
Leaves shush themselves like an audience.
An atomic pause, as of some huge attention
Bearing down. May I hold your hand?
A clutch of mayflies banqueting on oblivion
Writhes above the water like visible light.