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Green dragonflies hover over water. In the mind,

the axis of absence and presence resembles

a lunar eclipse. Hiking a ridge trail in the Barrancas,

we notice the translucent wing feathers of

a red-tailed hawk circling overhead. Once,

inadvertently, I glanced out the bathroom window

and noticed yellow yarrow blooming in sunshine.

A man does not have to gamble his car away

and hitchhike out of Las Vegas for the mind to ripen.

Bill Isaacs slices an agaricus lengthwise, points

to the yellow base of stipe, says, “Xanthodermus.”

Although he has walked up a trail into spruce

and fir, mycelium in his hands has spread out.

Although asthma may be passed from one to another,

one mind may be a sieve, while the other may be

crystals growing up a string. Is sun to earth to moon

as mind to shiitake to knife? When one mind

passes to another, green dragonflies hover over water.