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Self Portrait as a Blushing Petal, Nestled into the Melt
My cousin told me he found / Jesus, which was the easy part / since he couldn’t find his way / out of Brooklyn. Then this morning / it was so quiet you could hear / a cat walking. By noon the wind / kicked in making the trees swing / like Count Basie and the traffic / sounded like his horn section.
Song for Cassiopea
Leaving polyp form, you are medusa, / telltale bell and arms but no platonic ideal, / moons backlit in aquaria.
Of the Macho
A no ignition Johnny Blaze. / Now he places a white plastic lawn chair / in his shower. Safer, if you sit.
Itemized Checks
There’s a coyote’s skull at Hurricane Creek / there’s a new table in your section / your life, sectioned
decant desperation
there are no words for / a mother in mourning / her cries are / swans’ calls / seeking swift shelter / no bonfire can warm her / she floats,
The Boys of Kenneth Street
We played mumbletypeg with jackknives. / We stole Playboys from the first 7/11. We played corkball and kickball / and football in the street. Cars / interrupting a game were given a / raspberry. We weren’t really hoodlums—
EXCEPT YOU
What gets archived / a song in November / a psalm in the fields / chants around a fire?
shyness can stop you
this little silver instamatic camera shoots panoramas. / fits in your pocket, if there's no chewing gum or keys in there. it’s no / picturesque paul simon kodachrome.
Unarbitrary Definition for The New Concise Modern Dictionary of Synchromysticism
because · /bɪˈkɒz/ · conjunction. 1. Because the limited, dual nature of the human mind necessitates the illusion of cause and effect.