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