From This is the Emergency Present. Published by Coach House Books in 2019.

Fog buries the hill

and I don’t know how to mourn a cat

I’m quiet but dig

I know how to do that

with a pick and shovel

I dig deep for the dark

You cry for your cat and

I’ve never cried for a cat

Instead I put my hand on your back

Think of soil’s nitrification

How raccoons will probably

dig her up

The fog buries us too