In my mind a lilac begins to leaf


before it begins to leaf.
A new leaf

is a new moon.
As the skin of a chameleon


reflects temperature, light, emotion,
an X-ray of my hands


reflects chance, intention, hunger?
You can, in X-ray
diffraction,
study the symmetry of crystals,


but here, now,
the caesura marks a shift in the mind,


the vicissitudes
of starlight,

a
luna moth opening its wings.