I intend to give you many bowls 1. I intend to give you many bowls. For apples and loose change. What would suit you better than a bowl. Round with primacy, place for holding. You are not round like a woman but you have more roundness than most men. 2. In Korea, every day a woman prays for her son to come home .

Her prayer: Every day she puts clear water in a bowl. She placed it in the garden. 3. I will deposit light when you're absent. Figs. Water. Unchurched compounds. Tithes and dithyrambs.

Light. 4. A bowl. Where a mother keeps a son for safe-keeping. A bowl. Fugue on the pre-eminence of corners. A bowl. Cornerstone of repeated silence.

A bowl. Something to eat and light is changing. A bowl. Where I keep my body when my head is raining. A bowl. Two cupped hands made of clay. Husbandry For an American man to care for plants on the sills of windows is rare. Sadness without form is unbearable; bodies without skin are ugly and spill.

We spoke of the blood brain barrier-- we spoke of the opacity of brains. I wipe dust gathered on plants-- the ocean here seems small and dark. African violets watered upsidown do better-- indirection saves things and plants. Retreating horses are beautiful. Retreating water is beautiful. You, too, are beautiful, when the opacity of brains weighs heavy on your heart.