A lost tabby cat turns calico in the sun.
Teach me a model
to track this type of regression.
Broken leaves expose and smother memories.
Squirrels pair up to brace for winter.
The steam train nudges up,
then down, over redwood hills.
A boy follows alone on foot.
Steel pipes in the city exhale.
Only plumes of vapor warm the homeless here.
At my homecoming,
the lake is fenced in and sealed with duckweed.
Concrete cracks nearly merge on the expired dam.