Poetry
five
roots in green silt (color of pennies)
curl around the broken sink
in the yard
joan’s on the fire escape
bare neck blue like egg whites
climbs back in
with daubs of rain
around her mouth
on TV there are images of frozen cavemen
found in softened glaciers (the body’s precious metals)
it is not unusual to dream of hallways and femurs
too soft to walk on. many who
came to the americas by sea
reported a strange sensation of vertigo
upon seeing the coast: although
they could see land ahead it seemed
the cliffs were actually behind
the ship, and closing in
the sky is pink after the rain. I walk toward the NPC but she doesn’t see me. there are holes
in my hand when I touch her. she sways then fans her face. she is walking away from me with
a bundle in her arms. turns back. trees sway repeatedly when mapped by visibility. at the edge
of the scopic field we fold
the sky is pink after the rain. joan’s taking pears out of a bucket. the light
unsolifies. room in another room. in a doorway. tray of ice cubes
glinting. latches
collapsed and held apart
1. a natural or unnatural joint
2. depend upon entirely
the window screen’s
propped against the kitchen door
blue-green algae False sinningia. plant the teeth
and pull them again
Notches
an index
carved stone Katydids
sing into their own
ears whereas
shovels in a truckbed
clanging flowers
*
ribbons of sap
the riblike
instrument
hands pulling root vegetables
memory of spheres
in the absence between bones
*
creak implicit in negative space
all creaking [a current] carsick
hand sifts thru
striations of light
*
grass combed by
wind acts as moor
field charms (clinking)
debris in cup
first wind of September
sightings of ICE near Cypress/Myrtle
*
undoes
its offering. surface in
delay. circumference of an axe
in visible fields
wind calves
the other wind, crescent of
a molecule
speckled plum all exits
in the dark. who was it
that said balance is
the inner ear of god
