Airtight

The trees, phased piles and watered chafes,

Storey up foliage falling for the bud.

The dogs, fast wide-eyed, dozens of shapes

Traverse the green course, day of grass and mud.

Airtight in our skins, the obvious plan

To visit the parklands to talk in the sun

Turns to rain sprinkle chases, to understand

Limits of our reach. What’s done and undone.

The utmost of the sky cloud blue spiral

Is uppermost to our recall and sight,

Upright and walking, making words a pivot.

No business but ours, learning the planet.

Airtight waterproofed down-to-earth types

We live on atmosphere. No fear, at all.