10.10

pinkish grey smoke against invisible plane of ridge

birds slanting toward shadowed branch in foreground

as I was looking at them, finger pointing to “this”

enough, could be mistaken for flatness, appropriate

not possible to read this at 1/65th of a fingersnap

and therefore only knows it second hand so to speak

grey white cloud of smoke against shoulder of ridge

shadowed white line of wave breaking across channel