8.31.2007

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

8.30.2007

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

8.29.2007

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.

8.28.2007

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.

8.27.2007

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

8.26.2007

upsy-daisy

oil
dead
corps
forgot
debased
jaundice
forgetful
cadaverous

8.25.2007

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

8.23.2007

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

8.22.2007

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

8.21.2007

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

8.20.2007

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

8.19.2007

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.

8.18.2007

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

8.17.2007

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

8.16.2007

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

8.15.2007

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

8.14.2007

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

8.13.2007

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

8.12.2007

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

8.11.2007

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.

8.10.2007

mandala

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

Sunday morning cartoon

mother, sedimentarily awake
each consternator afop
and in amusemient larken

8.09.2007

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

8.08.2007

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

8.07.2007

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

8.06.2007

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

8.05.2007

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

8.04.2007

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

8.03.2007

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

8.02.2007

trace

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

8.01.2007

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