on moving forward

elephantine skull, mistaken eye,
prophet, blind oedipus & his
odysseus: the journey of white
while falling in that socket
sewn over after the pulp's removed
& the people pleased & feasted
soil on seed on soil

the seat

old man elephant,
can you feel even my heels?

you may rub those trees,
but won't swat me off.

i'd never urge you to jump.
let's just stumble from the stampede.

old saggy ears,
are you worn out by whispers?

would you perk
if i fell asleep, fell away?

i can feel you think:
pick some insects off, at least.

old skeleton elephant,
which of us turns toward the graveyard?

all we can know is
big and small bones pile up together.

escape of parrots, scrape

the smile leaves & awhile
greening, the birds preening
death a small breath in & the
clothed doors closed

the oceanographer

the long sighted swift leaves impressions of looks
partially over border between back and fore ground
swells populating seas--swivel the semilunar heads
perch on luminous reflective wrists parting strait
the surface of blue full frontal bulbs keenly eyes

impress, empress, imprint

part the hair, long straight, part
the people sea, the wrists out
of control, crescent forehead
forward, the sound of elbows, fingering
ring, the light against blue which
gives you away

roadblock

the crowd 
        cried just
give us
              all more
elbows! which
       is to
say so
         what if 
there is 
        no more
room at 
                 the in-.
addressing them,
              the archbishop
of canterbury
        claims there
were no
       three kings
at the
        stable. too,
in this
           tale, he
throws the
            ass out
the window.
          they all
press in.

parade

hold close his secret spine
cellular confetti & the old buick
there is no room @ the inn, but
internal skyscrapers spreading
towards the body's pulp--
the dress blues, the overseer's
oak desk, somewhere the manger
still @ work feeding the animals

margin'

in this passage scholars congregating
on intones monk correspondence by
generation, secretes spine of massages
architect rights alignment. in this
unzips sown seed, bear rock field,
three sons pluck from it thrown or
do not throw throw first. in parade
the singular cellular adepts adore
in origin enzyme iesus nucleotidus

adoration

curl to the roof of the creche
christ of the flora & fauna this
hurl of insects, lolly tongues
on the fern chorus, o holy
citation: genus, species, radiant
spores, redwood calves, the
frog chlorophyll, this struggle
since water & the sluggish joy
arriving

nativity

thatch integrity: break all as one, pull yields random set, bend stresses far layer laid smooth on near

batter my heart, space
of three breaths' bids

squirrel composition: one leaf, one scored strip of bark, three leaves, sympathetic veins, held up for inspection

this christmas you
whom i do not know

quality of time: a solo tick picked up in conduit of creek

they're called twins

attention of the seating, single spaced

in the piano, the birds from their wires

the empty dormitory of levitation

on the page, the notes in their cages

the metronome taught with a fitted sheet

random walk

i am not tired, were i

to come to

a remote church
and not tired sit
devotion? what earthbound barons by chance
having hired, fired michaelangelo
or likely found a watch
diverged in a precambrian field

i am not tired but my counts are off
the next first step

to pray to

remind my children of zero

evolution of the whale

the land made a song, but the sea sang it

you said the birds are bluer, even if they're mute

someone threw away a sink in the gurgled grass

the watch was invented so it could be taken off

water finds its own on the windshield, the radio's left on

king making

devised the scale first or light
once whole begat a shatter of asteroids
could not know by definition no reach
for the concentric peels of degenerate
tree. or monotonic reach of wet wave
mark the beach. intermedial mud
allowing flopping as a qualified
swimming or walking, depending on
the moment of observation. His paths
eyes sear

greater than or equal to

the pacing reversing

spiraling out of

domine

solve for x, solve for y

absolve. solute. absolute the
every of things again entry of
entropy. chaos. cave of
us & our sacks which're our
organs. put me together
& decorate & celebrate, this
an unmaking making living

trajectories

give measure & take
measure, coffin of
cake returns to
ingredients & a dark oily
sheen on the coffee.
quick to the nerve &
knife cutting open the
package : flags folded
in triangles, clouds falling
from their strings

nation of fabric and shock

give us as given these entwined trajectories of neighborhood,
this sympathetic musculature, which as pallbearers we synch
in heaves and measure premeditated steps. define as good
by definition that which forestalls or pulls from the brink
unstrained our striated commonplaces, parallel driveway chats

of symmetry mediated

red, the muscle color
on white the body pre-
disposed for flags &
territories @ the fasci-
nation of fabric & shock
& gauze & the universal
addition sign all to-
warding off the hope
of subtraction of
you before me again meat

to cling to what to

terrestrial line
of communications palpable curves

which facet glimmers is
the premedi-
dated act of observation

hand of symmetry mediated
when to

my left and y-
our right agripped
in torsion flexor-est

call

t-
action

five it is

adhere, gecko'd across
access the vertical land-
scrape. the thumb is a
finger, the eye fastened
by a snap-button the
depression the result
of impression, wait
of brilliance -- not that
the length of time is
producing any more
meaning. the mattress
with its recurring shape:
increased sarcophagi.
determining how to
cling to, what to

w a

weather     this

rare

  if         one      watching  resolves

earth swelling,   a    rising into

     parts

rain and     its
                      precipitates

five maybe

cheating counts trying
counts. hidden
web visitor
chocula
colateral
T-cell
finish
line

3 color separation

in the waiting room, snow falls on the furniture, while
the copier has been shaved of toner, placed in a pale gown
& humming birds take their turns, feeding from the i.v. drip

bindi

snow & drop, fire &
ash, rain & either
ether come & become
belonging & longing
once one tip
press

hotel: parameter inputs

1. cross product of ages of window
2. transparent nose flange parallax
3. calibration of fridge ping to pulse
4. rate of turn to Piltdown room
5. look outside; they plowed the lot yet?

dry cold

the light is condensed
gray strata, pulse
is identified in wrist &
ankle, begins
an angry snow

grizzly

shit.

say it.

shit man where am i gone today
man out lost in the woods at
treefall treeline flagfire
roast up on peculiar cairns
set up by what? shit. wolves.

muffled

we are surprised by our first
snow, and hug to the window.
our fight is postponed. we posit
one another at surface glass. the prow
of the house continuing parts
open the falling ice, water,
snow layers already aground

phases

a map to bleat
"here i am, where
were i gone?" losing
lost, people
know the woods, yet
not to go thru them
even the satellites
like to hide & we
keep building the
hidden

symbiosis

rhizome, in the root of
call & response this
congregation down the
center isle: exchange
rings & leaves

G! P! S!

choice traversing Petaluma subterrane in echoic
tones causeways concrete manhole sculpt in stone
leap waste plummet rhizome in reticular plea
ate of yet digest and yellowing mass to eat
on circumstances omnipresent no

utility

crescent wrench a
serpent tightens put
on metal
slip from plastic
wrap ignore
organic construction
establish reasonable
standards of being
body polis
circulatory

dig

stone mason
maison en pierre
purity of purpose
porte de cave

parable

the serpent of no-thought
entwines, is force of
river water turbulence

apace of river
rock smoothing

lists to core

in the smooth of the crescent moon

in the mortar
the pestle
to powder
people the
machine
w/ medi-
canticle
mercy

oh apoth
ecary thy
drugs
quick
click

at the tone the time will be

plants can
ever eat
a stone
having been
sonata &
bone &
broken water

their
technology
will save us
by devouring
our
song on
the hour

the palestinian problem in homophonous homographs

occupation settles mortar
occupation mortar settles
settles occupation mortar
settles mortar occupation
mortar occupation settles
mortar settles occupation

asp therapy

buck up! there
is more
than cracks in sidewalks

triangular serpents strung on gum spots
relative velocities of cracks passing
a gait and cars and shadows of cars
whether the foot falls at first or
across or in sympathetic polarity to
the street, side of street, flow of
water inevitably and as designed to
sewers

eau de poesis

oh sumptuous sobriety of stops
washed up flush to end of the lines

oh faux fur lined slippery twats
of sledging elided expectation

oh true grit snowballing up the rime
in Constance in a sense deposited

intelligence collection

the menial man bewitched
and bound and booked
when questioned said
.big big trance
.inducing plastic
.wherefrom
.my toe nails led
whereupon
terrorformed
successfully bred
.o dubious
.men recapture
.stillness
.or lead or paint instead

sledging

skin in the mouth
apple shin, the purpose
of the teeth is
damaging,

grit: an arm on
hammer
opulent gravity

allnatural

pickaxe

the arc the arm

rock cracks listening

brainshore

wash up on thought
a desicated jelly, vellum-vellum
so far un realized, un-
determined, transparent &
suction-cupped
mind-song

eriogonum

clamorous neighbors up Lamp Street, amber
of their ceiling's spaciousness, songs
felt in the brainwaves, owe dust
to us, work downtown from us, take
beer wagons to bars. the blue moon
glooming in night becomes
charades to wanting,
our end caught
first--being
it was
when,
too human,
we did that

menagerie

that is, the human zoo, when
was it being first caught & our
wanting to parade became night
& a gloom moon through the bars

the wagon wheels take us
from town to town, grinds us
to powder: oh imaginary waves
of grain to touch to sing

oh spacious ceiling, oh amber street
lamp, oh neighbor's amorous cat

substrate

"Under the headline 'Notices to Mariners', [Conrad] asserted the futility of literary effort in contrast to the informational precision of reports of the comings and goings of ships, then commonly printed in newspapers." -- The Guardian, 12/1/2007

Eighty-eight homo sapien crossing
the square

at once. Fourteen
heads among them. That is
to say to the view

of the eighty-eighth to
enter, at the moment
she crosses the centroid of
the oblong plaza, fourteen other

souls arise in
constellation, the remainder sketched
only vaguely
and uniformly, the next stratum
up from cobblestone

still-life of crowd

the only thing real about him was
the torso,
everything else a squid of movement's
mask, overabundance of
pencil marks, ethereal
crosshatching

high sea tremolo

sketched up by
starward strokes all
hands on tarry board along
this thin lair of denser
air are sound fetched
feted transmitted

wan(t/d)er

need less hands need
more bread & the breaking
of intention. the surety
that tents are moveable &
the people durably made:
intertextual, textile, tactile

grain for grinding or ground grain

the old brother of
the builder shows me
wordlessly the works,
the wheel trudged by
slow water and worried
stone. brother with no
longer hands for work
but carpal wings, will
take to the roof after
selling some jam of
grist to the Ameriki

pills & water

the head grinding arc
pressure to maintain
smooth stones, the
green ache, a shaft
of pain, a window
a gut, a lark
agape

i'mdamn

tarred farm tired
dog tard dragon
draggin knock
kneed need not
hurt bird herdin
heard worm in

before leaving

hierarchy of wood
to gray at the knees
of the elephant to
look around one must
turn his body this
entire moving farm

translation 5

barn door dust mote duly note(d gold single player light lept

-

unused still on the property
through
skin sloughed
off at time
inevitable
unseen
burnished cracks in earth

game of language stippled
and seen
tag

advent calendar

barn

door

dust

mote

duly

note(d

gold

single

player

light

lept

translation 4

The barn the horse the man saw ran past collapsed.

-

God the question asks
does program, or initial
hurl, or puppeteers, or
snores in the prompt box.
Does God underground. Yank
own levers. Look back at
us aboard a beam
of light. The barn doors
contracting space
time close

earthworks

escapement under the shell of the
earth, the moving gears and wheels
we are held up by brass the
thin rods puppeting the animal heads
to graze and raise up, the wave of
the farmer, the cardboard clouds
the accumulation of dust, animatronic
fates assembling spiders

translation 3

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo

-

the old

guard digs in. they've seen
it done a million times. once,
we were they. begrudge
not the victors; you
would be victors. over

the frozen

earthworks streams

stampede

probe

fillings tuning in
the cloud seeding
schedules, don't go
tomorrow or you
will meet rain and
they scoop you up
in light, messages
from un-
manned stations
repeating the un-
known numbers which,
in alien un-
broken code
spell don't

horizontal

want of uniform want of
symmetrical

greygyregreygyregrey

when lying on the side, one eye
sees the earth, the other wonders
where it is, were

what the sky sees

wardriving

lat
lon

mortar
cinder crossroad

grind out tectonic
one way brick

arrival

compass pointing in

four directions occur at

their intersection not

their exit velocity, where

the who are, who the

where is

memeory

black
transparent

cube with image
of cat old keepsake
rum bottle fencerail
bifurcating pose
skinflakes
collect at all
points of happening
simultnously

equally
snapshot
the gloved
finger having
rubbed
rubs on

furcula

the bone hung
by

expedients

snap &
file

hope retains
a sharp

needle

no act fails completely to kill you

our calculus of limbs, gravity beams
and waves the carnivorous mineral.
index taps ottoman. pinky-toe
makes rubbing of couch's
crenelation.

museum

skeleton puppeted on metal rods
the curve of the hunt &
the teeth enraged when entering the
jaw— the white purity when entering
meat—courtesy of introductions

onwardness

lion jaw an eye entrances
history at/and/of men, suits
us shucking altogether making
a strip of luxury slathered in

begin again

history does not make
men, it is made out of them

strip & shuck from
suit

grind down &
slather the mortar

lions @ the entrances
to libraries

press

the president asks how we
harvest our gardening hearts,
so busy at verse in war and
attending care

fully to the aims of
furrowed consciences,

raising only peace, for all
quietude. asks it not of us.

hedgerows

cabbage heads, the attentive
stare, wanting our vegetables
like soldiers, harvested
by machine, undermined
by continuous teeth

festo

rows the old angers legitimize,
flinch from sneer. all politics
rabbit catching. one with the
rascaly hunt.

relent

leaf falls at fan-speed, motif
of sickenness the turn, latch,
lock confessional bench height
knee skin conjoined cell seeking
post zenith enclosure

begin by sitting

when at work the lap is formed
for what swan to cradle, we're
no handle but a chamber
familial necessarily enclosing

wake

circle the dining set
slits in the chairbacks a
domestic zoetrope
the stick figures of us
drink coffee, go to
work, drink coffee, go
to work, drink
coffee
the light left on

no idea

a beveled gap
f silence sits
n the air ab
the cutting room
threshold. t
the level f
a chair rail,

wr there

chairs

hd they

not cut wailing
fr thickets

wr truly

recapitulation

descent

whose rib, whose
wainscoting

color & atmosphere share
an evolutionary

tree, a tendency
of xylem

a gut of
autumn

pupil

we stitch
are shaman

as if
far rumbled

from fault
those ribs

stars point
as if

they drift
are drifter

from if

one direction
another go

sclera

planet held
sutures

pangeaic futures
rifting

drift the
lungs

pitcher's
leg

aye eye i I

in the
beginning well
i was

a word
under sea
level. syllabic
pressures mounted.

these descenders
turned out

as good
for flesh
as water.

I emerged
in a

mouth full
of air.

cannibalism

not to be understated, in its adult form
the poem will often eat others of its own
kind, even to the point of growing extra
arms and legs to help it in the consumption
of its natural predator, the poet.

s & war & m

Mormon crickets gather in bands
fives of miles long. each Mormon
cricket is of perfect nutritional
balance for a Mormon cricket.

THEY ARE TRYING EACH
TO EAT THE NEXT (every
17 seconds) AND NOT BE
EATEN (every 17 seconds)
BY THE PRIOR.

SO DO YOU SEE THIS IS
JUST LIKE US.

making the bed

a closed door repeats
hermitage & the shortening of
days, the brightness of eyes
a trick of light under the ocean, again reveals
the love of browns & salts the
return

conch explanation

hear sea suds
tweedle that
fractal animal, wow!
home a dome
in a jag edge shore
twiddles right on in
on its ownsome

slight of hand

behind the

sea in an ear

conch explanation

coin of the musician

pulls out a

lunar module

break

his want

extension of sand

number, endless

press homogeneous ears

the sea of drawn thin stutter

a moon

intertidal interstitial

his each moment out of water
a clock gasping time, fish
grasping rock, store heat in the
mouth waking, beats on
the beach

view your documents

memory of direct
celluloid transfer,
a moment of emulsion
salt deep propagated
sound coral waveform
repeats its cortex
i will have been swimming cold alive

fault

sublimed, he subducted to the
blue bed sheets, settling his continent
in the ocean, the dreamfishes
filled with eggs, this present
drowning, the cry of stones

panegimblic

slip-surface of solitary continent
tectonics apace of glass flow, time
calibrated to a gravity river,
or rivulets side trips see space
minus us is our confluence

day job

provisional: ends tied together, meet
compensation: hierarchy of profit and its
distribution: fulfillment to society

all i could strain from my collar was

i was a bird
i was a bird
i was a bird

trapped in an earth of glass

blog

i wrote poem about how
cars are their own species
and we are their parasites.
was there a twilight zone
about that
i wrote a poem about how
everything was a twilight
zone ripoff. even by
god so even our bodies.
even the god of my poem.
even infinite spooky action
at a distance as tv signal

shelf life

chrome like car like can opener like
get in and out of yr jeans like salt
like lot's wife like preservatives like
plastic surgery like our bodies eating
eating out our souls like carnivores

shelf life

chance tumbles a-
head of time on acute
jags of cliff face

mark its history
as a glance off eagle
roost, chalk edging
or saddle-shaped
body-bag

distribution

tail-
end of
which lands
on the canyon floor a coin

erstwhile

w/ an infinite amount of chances
the campaign is completed

ravens become the most populous
creature on the planet

a body exists so that other bodies might be
made from it

"feed the birds, tuppence a bag"

impoptu

THIS ACCOUNT
is suspended. you will
have to be reborn to
continue. your corpse
must not have decomposed.
the trajectories of
bullets must be recon-
structed. do not
move
suddenly. enjoy
a forensic exposition
as you wait. look at
all the chrome tools
prodding your erstwhile
body. RELAX.

have

gun will travel in
packs, hunt

glint of silver:
bristle

how glocks
pick at carcass

outgoing

all quite
quiet.
quiet for
for the moment
the moment, the guns
the guns' will
willfire
the guns
will fire.

her leather rings

an eye in each
knuckle

burden of
place

grasp
green

stem the
tremendous

mind body duelism

breath, tendoned
wish heave im-
pulse of animalcules
disembarking
mitochondrial shuttle
squat, leap, gamble
wish against
flesh is a push

sidle

needle legs, the fight for gristle
ensues the sand for the quick moving
crackle, condensation: fire which
foreburns to the soft core, consternation
constellation

the mating of books

potassium ion pump
see & sawn
we divide into two specialized
it's too dawned & deemed
surface, a
breath twin will suffice

at the raising

"the branch
despite

growing back
into

itself
and sawn

remains
rooted."

"but we have made it a cross beam."

"terrarium
frame."

further down the hall

somnambulist accompany by pianolight
outlines of doors and windows on water-rising
outside, & inside fish attracted to sconce &
paperweight

first award

Herman the century's premier Nocareman pride
of the country waits by the brushy border.
you want to come across do you you want so
much to crawl like a desert lizard? Inocare.

seesaawnl

blnuder n hallwos catc
stp

joching

khuts i upp
seesaaw alogn eht camal eyye

habiticity

spoon soliloquy
church of drawers
stainless decoration
the knob w/ knowhow familiarity
my open my
close

they say

cat got yr marble
lost all yr tongues

two birds with one bush
better than those in a stone

if a leave falls in the forest
does it make a noun

the agnew clinic

ravens seen in increasing numbers
collective surgeons. cuts trained
and quick. not outdo each the pain
of the disease. contribute a
syllable simultaneously. triage
as always selects for the shiny.

mammals in buses, birds in the outfield bleachers

a flock of birds all want
window seats. why should all
decisions resort to the
compass. this magnetic field
is causing the words to
fan about our polar regions.

Luck is deaf in the prayed-to ear

holy o lay the darkened
day pray ride with me o
stay inside despair of
cloud of thickened air
belay o dream o sick
redeem

suckle

to travel is the release
of sin. know that. i know
that. researchers have
found our mammalian
forebears formed their
packs in crosstown buses.
evident. working it off.

renew.reuse.recycle

commuting again w/ an animal
head: falcon, jackal, ibis what
word would balance scales & bring
the sun up w/out a fight? there are many
little strips of cloth for the embalmer
to apply along a lifetime. burial thru
confetti.

on the b&w BART

we see but one
color of her face & the
longing that is made out of paper
mache will be our ruin & the
ink is already running

amile in shoes

we all fly on one big airbus with many stopovers or
we all swim laps in an oceansize pool, different lanes or
we all lay on our inflections at once to a big kapow or
we all lie in oblong boxes alongside oscillating fruit

air line

silver speck tip, the constant

shroud pulled across the face

look down on the topological clouds

the flange tightens, we turn

get threaded in the blue

timezone

we launch out across
the surface. i did did
i? flailing for you among
the folds cascades a mouth of
accumulated dress. eat
eat and fly on
the condensed
converted energy of
it we are those machines. skip a stroke
pull harder on the
left than then right circle swimming
nothing know
the surface by
your oar the earth
extends
touch itself

p.meridian

she shakes out the bread crumbs &
then folds away. the sun is an island
the sea eating it out. her arms tunnel
into the arms of her tawny coat. she
fastens on the tawdry sparrow.

pickup wash

you're not big-boned;
your eyes are lipid pools

baby my odyssey
is so littoral
it's riverine

well lash my mast if you ain't
a three-alarm siren

a.meridian

w/ a cloud to cover the face he's
exactly just a clock, the fingers, the
ring & an apple should suffice to
be the only view & green.

plent

sanct
fluor
briga
hears
grave
boond
reliv

again time

everything that whizzes by says shit, man, i am tired, but suspended here
like gravel decked up in the gross act of passage. you sit by me in the
passenger seat looking forward.

pulse

some chrono-
stones, the pebbles
weary to fit in an
ear, the level of the
sea rising. my dopple-
ganger would be more
forceful on the
radar, more blue, more
sun of ten-
or

plays in theoria

shouts elides
sounds of one
god laughing

stock soup
of smilodon
bones grist

milling chromo
somes

like i said, time

if i am a beacon for this let them

if ever this rock cracks i mean

if river slurps off my oaken skin

coming. i can stand. i recognize a morning. the sun also ages. if i am tall they know me. time.

beacon

beckon: was it to prevent
the rocks from rising &
eating you or to starve
you away from here
land is & our need
for declining contact &
becoming multicellular

"the head is to be used as an additional
antenna"

whole

broken tea pot, emerging dirt
tender to bury, tendency for soil
to seep up, sleep in the cracks

the gate takes away, takes again

view

concrete severance back
stoop with broken leaves that has sat there
the gate will not hold whenever you look

hand of the barefoot king

for every step you take over

glass, so do i

was once continuity

cutting you cut me

wargame

lizard scenario five
hundred contracts in
a box unsigned buy me
a second hand rifle
this is time
moving by this
is the people
streaming in flesh
flaming

start again i am supposed to win this

consequence

cut myself thinking, caught
up in pieces, door flame
the frameable liquids

meld

debate a bal-
mer in re-
lied on br-

idle lim-

bred as bad-
die at deli-
berate in bed

evidence

peer are we followed: sus-
tenance : mitochondrial
apples over
the shoulder the
timid able deer

corroborative

dark falls on slats of shades or open
gaps bound in limb
stretch the neck or head of back
peer are we followed? through vertebrae

remove, restore, remodel

pipes elbow their way into the house, up into
the sink, solar respiration, s-trap

"their determination is an inversion of our
need to represent them"

blueprint, terrycloth, parry

her airplane holding air

white paper permanence
crush the ninth objection clean
the return, up, of
light, of power

clean white light

paper airplane, the ninth air
permanence
of objection, the holding
power of up, her return
crush

didn't freefall from the tree

at three
years i was made
to invest in
constellations. that star
one is connected to
star two, return
to start. repeat
with me: "these things
turned out not to be true." good,
kid.

an honest day

obsequious laboring in
true font of rigmarole

crows battened down eyes

the homing pigeon circled in its descent

slept wooden
panel, the august glow
aged, go drift in the
page the shelf
honed

please fold along the existing crease

debatable, certainty
the found of self

lenient

what was coming closer
the valve swinging shut

pry

averse

mail away clutter letter
support causes curses amaze
silence brick ocher stilts
atop balance semblance smile

blue

the triangles on the face re-
present the squares of thought, the
two sides of the brain plug and play,
her turning towards him with the
pallid eyes, the coming around,
the pulling the moon closer for focus

translation 2

soar in dream
powered flight, magical physics
hulking machine swarmed by technicians
the work of muscled hands
root in earth

10,000 ft

fuselage, sky-cutter
cloud-bleeder the
condensation scars
silver sliver silver
savior

first usage

margin crescent
thickness in
air sucks
mutual tubulature
our green circle against
spectral boundary
divine it

ideas for blogs

why i am tired
simian negotiations
he couldn't say she couldn't say
what i intended this to be
lolme

microwave/dishwasher safe

cup, more w/
white reckless & gray
obedience daily
worn resting
tablature
concentric
chariots

attention

peel your purpose off, an
unnecessary warning label,
under penalty of law, unless
consumed, a

little man and his little lightning

metaphor or fable

well they're off, pretty patience
is rounding the corner and whoa
well hey what's this if it isn't
the purloined parable stealing
as it were up the rail if there's
been a closer one i have yet to see it

volunteerism

eye feels shape of returning
water, colossal corpus of
self reflected sympathy
i fires aim fire present harms

mindfulness

prescribed conversion of pain
placement of diffusion in the
lobes of the racing towards an
end in lights and pinholes, the
servants of cartoon stars circum
navigating the head

side panel instructions

minute rain straight
out of the box blotching
the sidewalk all come
home all certainty changes
weather in the whiff

drake avenue biomass

it's masses of inspector generals rushing by,
pausing but to greet and brush and multiply.
we tire in the straw of concrete sleeping-cages.
unite in our insomnia, molds, bacteriophages

up to code

the street yawning its
tendrils into
houses. we are
kept awake w/
asphalt so close at
our breath. the saw
is necessary
removes infringements.

organic urban design

there was supposed
to be crossing?
imagine
it in brick.
yesterday folks interleaved
at soothing right angles.
they are mobile
roots where warnings
and virus may pass?

re/cognition

recurrent blue you &
on me yellow, your
yellowing on me still
recollapsing into blue

shine kicking shin

whatya want

young i'd have a dream popping
through a trap door basement
to kitchen ; a network single-
colored connections to other
rooms. yarn-tangle ; suspended
racetrack threads performance

panacea

hidden panel
wires & rainbow
diffusion water-tight
anarchy & parallel
circus

"in this position the hand suggests determinism"

this would be "m"

peace,
asks walking rain

raveling
wave ursine

unleavening
toothsome blue

cemetery maintenance

pain stake
stalk, against
gravity graves
the line
light leaving
ruthless
roots

translation 1

tree
rock
fencepost
yellowing leaf
grass

light-slat
corrugated board
mine mine mine
see no human face in a day
impalement

leap out of the

skinned & the blatant pastel roots, pale
white blooms (current) the path of
least resistance, tendency to leak
out of the skein, lack out of the sky

cardiovascular

wet summerlike
every way
whichward make yourself
do

alternating circuit
of anger complementary cavity
staked out sinew
slalom
row

permanent collection

prepositioned
interred
connection
spinal
gallery
transverse
weave
grass blackened precisely in a square
line of assemblage
fingernails

reception

severe a sever of wire, the line
on the nail through to spine and the
art on the chest : white matte : black
frame : to serve as gallery again.

retrolution

hereditary: the manual was used, previous
year's model : heretic : download upgrades :
haberdashery : coolant system required

ode-on-a, o ode-on-a

we all count on.

looked it up in manual.

rather o the hefty breadth of summer's-end dusks.

we all

looked

rather

dusked

evolutionary tree

certainly circumstance circadian
prevailing preventative pressure
devastating determined detail
valiant variance vertebrae
chaos cakewalk contraband
proposition

form; function; origin

mammals be
come us
god-tried

revolution in mammalian affairs
the cusp of new evolutionary age
transport us where nature could not

i have a recurring itch at the base of my tail
be near me, against me, honed to proximity
who knows in all this doing which who

divorce

specifically it was my
understanding that they
should match, be paired, light
up, sort, fit in the other slipped
into a box under the bed. that
they had too many colors and
too many vertebrae was
beyond me.

fix is in

be so unfuckingfree an
an unfuckingreal wanderthru
walfuckingmart
wfuckinge refuckingturn
alfuckingone
godfuckfuckingingdamnit

pool

blue blue leaky, blue likely blue
making into blue, making into
thru, to pull thru thread, blue thread

you take the right
no push in a sort

of clockwise

manner lets be
guided bewildered and

breathe under

water lets
stickly give little

oomphs roses

air in air

fluid breathing thru fluid

promontory gills

guillotines

graffito

glasstrembleticker
tacklecrasssticker
hedgethumbsflicker

hedgesunrayslicker

to clean

one hand to spin & one
to measure &
one

cut deep one
motion head to tail

the glassy eyes

I call Clotho

one
card catalog of
a closet
the clause of
skein the second
part cloth sea

hell [killing] brain cells are the aforementioned stitches in time

philosophy

the pit of the earth
turns and wells only
if it is
true. the beam
of lighthouse, despite grime
buttressed by updraft
at cliff's edge sea well
only if it is true see
where my feet lead
only you may
come if it is

at the front sink

weak w/ week & roll up the
dress sleeves, hard collar
pinched speech the sheath
in the open mouth determined

head cold, all ahead full

gallus gray, callous clay, heavy
lids, to turn the head &
water sloughs from the lips
of the glass. the opening. the
coming to.

the making of found

ability only to see what is in motion, changes in
the hunting reflex, if only it moves it's only
shadow, what isn't moving is to be obtained.
scarlet scarf, plastic bag on the fence post slack.

PSA

a
day to darn
the intestines
organs roommates with
a cigar smoke
ghost

laudry

she put on the landscape &
it was fitted as socks, weather
tended to grow tight ribs

archaeology in sixteen words or less

the flexwork of veins
pressure mold labor
i shovel oxygen
earth collect light
this fossil Horatio

development

insides explicate outsides. the house
built from w/in why so much
spent on hiding what can't be
is only evident sun-
roof. eave. odd. evens.

ohshitohshitohshit

tent

picture

water

breadth

steam

steamed

muscle

parlay

sure always is a safe word if yr
confident enough using it like a
fence but how it bends on brick
and grout growing the small
circular rings. all this going to a knife
fight with a fire extinguisher.

SHOTGUN!

yes, third thoracic
leg, obviously you are
correct. spin again
your rhythm. i know
shortcuts where the
keys lie eying the
door; a secret button
straddling preset and
seek; the interstate
exit they expand with
an upper, upward lane

blued air

corn crept in the corners of the
cracked adobe walls. i put my
heart in a jar & prepared
for winter. the broom determined
the paper to keep the last
mouse warm.

quietude

time dense
coats of hair.
let us give
each other old
rings. let them
be found rolling
the Peloponnese
awakened for the time
the sun traverses
the sea tip to tip

always floss

fidget tensile tender
whoah! i went to
figment trip sail
the dentist you
filament failure mend
know what he
monster regard remonstration
said? he will
mentalese retraction still
have to fill
poultice presence illness
all of those
fair detente demonstration
depravities!

pocket

plastic lungs held by the sheath separates
quick from the red motion of the
joint the change in the capacity of
space between the man and the woman
movement only occurring in absence

once

the saline beginning rolling up
the sleeves on the white dress
shirt. silica package. driving
to drying. button & un
button. where the hands are.

hydrology

insoluble
         the water
somnambulist
         the water
supplicant
         the water
insatiable 

unct

define work as i
work my
headrest
potential
foible
some job or other
willingness cruciform
strengths
it has a handle. i grip
and drive my last will
widen a crack
in soil
done enough

stratum

pervasive. clamp. pressure.
leaves a continuance that
rock on rock is a timeline
of profession. clocked
in. blow to the face & clocked
out.

chapel

crawling in the walls this
inscrutable pressure. bled
structural support for in
visible mass of arched in
side. could be acrobats
million vermillion and ecru
tiles the sand ringed roof

house altar

drk stripstaind doors. the panels
that constrict sky thru cracks
& termites. terminal line "may we"
approach "have a look" approach
tendncy of feetless.

phantom limn

the body
         in        loss
    of   sensation       still
                         poses
         receptive
to  touch

unconvinced

solder. soldier. sleeper trailer @ the
jobsite. go home in the parking
lot. they have it right, he says, live
like work by heating metal.

fluted

 syrup
tissues
vicious
 etude

of least resistance

crossing of the divining rods
x slips into itself
water flows in a line a
to b. be perpetual
brasses. longitudes.
fragrant magnetisms.
find. found.

prolegomena to a report to the joint armed services and foreign affairs committees

breathing space
sectarian political
compromises
divide
make a touchdown!
GAO
a few days ago
individual
great strides
fight n die
what's the likelihood
dead horse
puts it
of the day
impinges

safe returns

a point. meant to pencil
in, lead
consequence. irascible.
possibility of per
man ence. have
come to be
covered. sand.

X spot

i go out
of town for a week. of
course i will have internet.
hotels i go
there is internet. california
desert. between death
and reservation

regulation issue

undertaker, the cat, it
comes back, undertaken, stolen
faces stone place
holders, screw on
lids, bottles
plastics

zero

tailcoat in
ammunition
the cycle is
impenetrable, inscrutable
in seen the same of all
directions
a good scratch

all this stem cell business

brn braaauwn nss
woertth flaunw
orth flown brow
brown Nessie

1.5 in

plated & tableware. the moon is
skulking away from the earth. water
in glass orbit. we must
consider to ask her how
to come back.

rolecowl

i am ex-soviet soldiers'
toil i am litharge lead oxide
in yellow form i am
willowsin wind, what
i am potato's swelling
struggle against the
nurturer

transpire

numerical obstinacy. the network is
full -- how spiders determine to
hijack a tree. the wind is full
of wood.

on the supper sixtieth to last, the conversation was not yet so focused

i saw fifty
nine angels dancing the fifty
three-step on forty
seven pins as i just turned thirty
nine days i asked are there more than thirty
dimensions curled around the twenty
bill-sized space if so ifso i ask (for the twelfth
damn time of you) how many of me, three
or one

rate of speed

bro
ken both
ered spit
teeth &
time tele
prompt

tryst

i went up
a fall. you were there. the sun
rose. hand met. air lay sweet.
son called up. we went at once.

beautifall

discipline of the infinite. succor
beauty. timing beautiful. the
clockosphere. the hands of
repetitive direction.

the tiff

crystallized momentum, sets us
pugilist stances continous
leaning toward

i realize we should effect the situation


what brought us

pretense

dress shirt in the closet the wrinkled
ends. strip. white cardboard. the attachment of
pairing the fruit on the hanger and hung. i'm
forward thinking and meddlesome. charcoal
motion.

epidime

well. the morning is the earth suppurates its sun.

i say. awful, the word inherits angularity of features it passes over, past, the nose it is poked by.

is they say the plum of varicose growth

wince

windpipe -- shorebird -- glint -- submerge -- recalcitrant

of marrying age

truthseeming being consequently
awaiting neuronal tally
to tip 19745 (to 19747)
(awaiting on the date to flip
knowing inprocess and
nowandnow wedding

encroachment

cuttle up. qualify
reasonable clarified. sancti-
monious marginalia.
toward suspect(ability.
electric consequence.

in nomine Patria

give us this
day to day
rigmarole
for thine is
thine is the
let not thy
and He said
let
give us our
ever and
ever a
man oh man

hew

cleared: the night the trees the assumption of
earth into sky precipice and outfall. outcome of
the teeth ground and an outpour.

surrender toto

heart dear mr
mur tran
spires love be
loved per
spires con
verges horizon
tally in di
stance

august

horizon companion. two for the price of thee. when
was it that the prehensile were coming down only to be
full. again gibbous not quite cut and quartered. fooled.

oh, i have already prepared my eulogy

carry my body
as a placard.
the sun sinks
itself into the grass.
we worship at
the transparent mirror
of illness. some
of us crash.

goat tense

carry/shoulder
stumble/wash/rock
piercing/blueness
lift/off

shiver

merge in the blade horizon. home
on the brow. the hand lies dormant
in the field. to say what makes the
wheat come back.

figure with landscape

prime scapula.
shoulder knife.
press into my
prairie. press
into my
print

corner office

rapt genuflections
of the orb the bas
relief silhouetted
heavenglo treeline

upsy-daisy

oil
dead
corps
forgot
debased
jaundice
forgetful
cadaverous

the double helix

the code always starts
with a one. a one? sir
all ways down hill from
there. onyx rails
bounce us back to one
another. go on one gone

determine

heavy on the eyes a distillation
of the pollenate particular when
distracted i came clear & re-
nebulous there is no center
but many orbits

swarm

sullen
swollen
sudden light
sweet dark
& again

exodus

gravity
downslope
purchase
sticky
pollen of crowds
we all wave
streams untethered

send our next selves on

timeways and tin

nerve driven the knee
is a mouth, a
language of falling
watches. watching.
bent.

you would think once in a while

ouster more this shitty
rain registers dewy
decimal brainpan can i
not relax not damn
clockwatch or cook

catalog the house

slipway
dreamt trap
door skip floors
chalkline
divide evolutionary
repair
coaster
interlocker

penitent

& thither & goes
thy mouth of silver
thy knees of moths

egret

the ghost gets
on every
everything. regret
fishing. finishing
strike. strip.
stricken.
chalk.

oreash

heron to dock
heron to dock
come in
water side
more i
blue whom
argue
which want
this light

ash ore

blue heron, you
more than a muse
i want to
come light in
this dock
argue which side
to whom
watching the water

suggestion box

complain as day, as natural as
the difference at night satisfied
by what you own, being owned
owe nothing. give often.

can't go

home. is where the isn't
is. tears of the torn paper variety.
paper bag. remove recyclables.
1,000 cranes.

on the necessity of vacationing, the practice requiring no little initiative

shirtless crows (really?
summer.

muggy predilection
tributary of spine

today we may intertwine

toe jam

i got a backache, baby, you cry
i got a lead ball in my belly
we gotta get our
led out our feet under
i got a great idea, baby, you say
i guess, i got a way in these weeds

mostly partly

present conditions will eventually
consume the house down to its
windows. windmill. look for the
high pressure system from the north
to continue. swell. weathervane.

vita

i cannot tell my employers that the result of my extensive and meticulous research is having less to say than before. i cannot

say that even

pressure on concavity

comingling lobes

motion lessness

patchwork

the seam where roofs meet
we wait a bisected day
a farm gathers glimpse

about me

my interests are s
ushi and greenbean
casserole. MY INTE
RESTS ARE WELL PRE
SERVED MIMICS of a
nimal mask
s tiny animals the
mselves curled int
o facefittingforms

handspan

could cold on glass and enclave the
frost frets out and farthest wings
further the father

we will have a summer vacation

o goodbye o good
life the stent
of our arms o pack
the ties with
stains like stripes
the drip o sleep

why write so people can't understand you? do you write songs? i like songs. why don't you write any? if you don't write songs why do you write?

to be
small
-er than
no-
thing &
smaller
than
that
want

This is 5 mornings. Pacific Ocean time.

breath weight the lefty
sort out modulations brickwalk
ends in
the middle go
dammit

skyline

boxes out of boxes
careening to a single point to
distance city into city
one car . one car

bbiatrek

dessert: cracked pollen; entree: tears, not eating, crying; appetizer: stomp! hallo!; snack: sprig of green tree, cut, bled

make it so

thy love like
Esperanto, thy gaze
nerd culture, let's repair

explanation

the vowels of evisceration. the evolution
of elocution. the election of electricity.
expectation evermore.

mandala

black oak, coat, the
grass, glass, breeze
while, white, while

Sunday morning cartoon

mother, sedimentarily awake
each consternator afop
and in amusemient larken

late

you
see i wasn't--well,
the way
it began i was
there was
an errand i
was on, expecting
nothing out
ordinary
day and all of a

solemn

mass : black oak risen
from glass perennials : states
change w/ the distribution of
temperature

still life

objects in motion tend to stay
rough in the garden, the art is
choking -- coming to the
blink of the water in motion

navel-gazing by a nose

well my
selves speciating
flora hairy sensor net
fauna neuroses jockey

becoming iguana

willing white dress shirt and his black
up against the wall everything is coming up
squares and the flower necessities an
emphasis on washcloths her fervent
sketches

mackenzie, don't touch or the mother will reject it

a baby bird does not have a primer. i am going to drive in one direction as far as possible. if i am pointed at the destination from the beginning. it fell and could not yet fly. little chance of my passing

temple

cell-
ular jail sewing
lids and eyes the
celestory window
blinded aspen binding
shut

O county fair

children clench
tired eyes apples
sticky soles queue
march starts and
overs breatheasy

ball and socket

muscle to the joint.

red streamers.

the confetti. the flame.

the likelihood of

curtains. 1492. blue.

the world is pain and

round.

Ganges

rotten ice . skiff . unsheath
embarked . erode

forensic analysis

the declension the sapping
of strength to his weapon-hand.
the serif the twirl he takes
after turning the corner.
the shaky loop the period
of his return

brink

the eyes bleach
-ed out, the
bleak brick a
steady stare

chair

windows congeal
light, a blocked
radius : the movement
toward typically a
movement away, therefore
orbitual

it's your birthday

it's sweet no
really you shouldn't
have i didn't get
you anything the thought
that counts he meant
well the road to hell
and good in tention

trace

the paper windows
yellow, age comes
like a sun
folding, willing

pulp

seldom or cell(d

a layer of

or mortar

when mortality or

mechanization sets

basically how it works

infant's concept
of ownership
crosses wires
abandonment

practitioner

cantilever, that is to hold
at arm’s length and
expect icicles, was it necessary
to divulge my
day

segue

brittle sternum     concavity
of interrupted dream

          sun

on noticing the lock of hair

the door peels

the small cracks

the eyes are complete

i wonder, i

shower shave

it is as true as i say it
in the morning the world spins faster.
it is the day it slows.

Cicero

is my formal
frame the carriage
return? there is no more carriage. the limit is
the vestige of defunct
machines, like train
tracks the
width of
roman
wagon
wheel
ruts uh!
et tu

wake

face w the problem
that every
thing said is
trivial or not
true. that
too. need less
to say