Heron By Patrick T. Reardon . Great blue heron, white in high green, folds on self, forward falls toward water, clear space, wingspan wind-catch, rise in flight. . I am semi-trailer truck in someone else’s tender canoe — steep banks through suburbs, six crows from one bank to the other frenzy a hawk, mud…

After reading “State of Relax” by Eileen Myles By Patrick T. Reardon . "Cows kissing goats" — Bible-immersed — I see lions bedding with lambs.  . Calliope of poem, lustful, subtle — nation un-uniting itself and sighing, postcoital. . Nebraska as "the loosest kook of all and animals walk naked in your past."  . All…