Shane McCrae Neighborhood Watch I am beginning a watercolor of the compost heap in your backyard. This will take many years, though you will not know I am here. I make it a habit to blend in with whatever is inside me, like a guitar case. Yes, you have been away that long. Songbirds Do Something Overhead Songbirds do something overhead And trees trees     also do the same Thing but that thing    matches their bod- ies more       peacefully someone comes Meaning it does not rise but falls Someone comes knocking yes  we rec- ognize the door we    after all Are not too far outside the back- yard is not far outside the front Door is not gone too deep in strange- ness yet       to hear though it did not Almost exist we listening Listening       for the disappear- ing world of things to call us from This world of places back we are Not sorry for it    and go home about Shane McCrae