Maurice Mierau - how to recognize change

Clouds scud by the moon and patches
of light appear in the snow-seeded clouds.

Greater temperature variation does not mean
we get nicer weather.

A dictionary of nerve endings bloom in
your lower back, you hum

when I touch you there, you say
the world stops.

How long will dead plastic cups poke
out of the first snow?

A baseball player threw a chair into the stands,
hitting a woman’s nose, snapping the cartilage.

Do you know
when things change?