Sunday Morning

i.

Seed pipe cleaner strands of birch flower,
pipe cleaners hanging down
and the sweet, grape-bunch seed of flower on the maple.
How do the leaves bud red, salmon red, pale meat red,
with the green-yellow flower clusters?
It seems to me they must arise separately.
Then I see the red part is the burst calyx
like broken shrimp shell shedding roe, and
similar enough in texture, that great mass of
incipient pollen and seed shower.

ii.

Some curly-tailed, black dog trots
like a pet pig, across mid-ocean
intrepid in its locomotion.