returning you

consider the lily & define the novel.

it's always greener on the other
hand keeps pushing up dailies.

each night w/ its number as a contestant
watched by the mechanical owls.

coming. going.
sleeping. knowing.

it's a setup, i tell you, he says.
no, it's just a set, she says, drawing in the fake dust.

the home the parents died in studied

our @ apoplectically
reeducating terms. take
owls: % expenditure
gauged to a # of
night. how I ! you.
spill our teetering
brainpans into &.
), breath, tea, TV.
returning ~ you as
promised home*.

altaer

his succession of afters
then life, then thought, then
after the wax, the bronze
age, the animals in the
archives salvationary & quick
to reduce the work of the
hands. rely more on air.

triage

the fins grew back so easily & under the
covers the cycle of emerging

the dream of ash & glass in
the corners of elevators

flotilla of winter fluids
mind full of jellyfish

influenza

the tail slithered into backbone & bore the
surface swell out to land

aspirating sand & gaze in
the eddies of tide pools

mass flexes to refreeze
listen waxen medusa

words

the sample. fracture splits
and spiders. disc's tectonic
horizon passage. imbalance
reverberates "no known
cure." the sole mate. i was
selected slabwise. elaborate
nervework in lattices of
genome decodes as we at this
curb hunch and the cross-
button subclause, random chain,
walk

spamphorisms

"Prohibitions have proven better than explanations in half of all cases. Do not consider the other half."
-- Pierre Arccosine Valencia

"Sickness desires nothing but the desire of sickness."
-- Irma Toxicology Self

"When I was younger I believed that all things posed all images to all people. Now I collect butterflies. They are everything to me."
-- Erectile

"I never met a politician who wasn't interested in political office, except insofar as the office was meant for him."
-- Stephen Motherland Jonnes

"Show me true friendship with a lifelong lover of drink, and I'll show you a helluva prostatectomy scar."
-- Chase Perdition Wiggins

"I used to go to church. All that ended when they paved the driveways."
-- Priscilla Statuary Amos

stolen

impossible petri possible petrification
solid & solid again & beyond solid
body to body to stone, the cry
the arching impossible & the
syllables a warm-blooded backbone
& bird & back again. we're
coming out of the ooze & the
world takes patience in taking
returning possibles.

arbor

tree constellation ardor
the elevator takes for-
ever and makes forever
i grow dinosaur skin this
feign feather which
fevers and fetters and
one room to the top
hands and feet inside the
vehicle at all
times convergent the
branches will grow
internally. e-
terminal.

escape

ordinary light bewitch
behold long tendoned sun
and asteroids multiplication
our trajectories hopes to miss
and waxing thrill in flimsy sail
it is made of

              how many minutes dodged
spotlight scrutiny by gyre of solar wind
beheld our joined
hands arbor
filamented gold
shade of canopy

buried on page six a week later

the undistinguished edge of
earth's occlusion creeps
up as stated on kitten paws
with fixless sense
memory crystal lambent
claws. retraction.
the damnable papoose sheds
readiness--hadn't we seen
a clap already?
precious lambish of our slumber
slaughter, night reclaimed
simply daughterly scamper

another hundred refractions

why, i said of my abbreviation, do
covalent bonds settle down to dust, how
steep my limbs. pressed along the la-
vender my engine idles up a song,
the brain stem of the body's
arterial thump. this being me has gone
on long enough in twin lung and to not to
would mean circle soon and twine. on the
task and the clock of temperate derivation:
toward the wandering or uncoming. the going.

ena hondrid ruflectaons

why e seed ef my ebbreveeteen de
shert thengs ceme te these whe
staap. stappad alang tha lana
davadar tha angana adlas ap alang
tho broon stom of tho coty's
ortorool thomp. tomo hos gono
in tii ling nit ti tirn i cirnir
siin. timi ti sit thi blinkir in
und thu tuduuus ducusuun: tuwurd
thu wuthdruwung ur uncumung?

why i said of my abbreviation do
short things come to those who
stoop. stopped along the lane
divider the engine idles up along
the brain stem of the city's
arterial thump. time has gone
on too long not to turn a corner
soon. time to set the blinker on
and the tedious decision: toward
the withdrawing or oncoming?

theory

the life was for cutting &
the knife for living w/ re-
moval. after a map is
made the actual disappear.
it is more convenient to be
a symbol of an organ than
to maintain one, or at least
they signified. when i woke
up in letters they were
already chewed away.

sight

there was this white & the white &
then white. the absence. i have
gotten old & young again & not
myself again & white again. the
white strapped me in. i became
a white chair in the corner
of the universe. a speck of
white. light on my pupil.
the adjustment.

familiarization of nearby space

we're revolving clockwise; counter
 our gravity this vessel careening

we're authoring science; fiction
 writing off the merely conceivable

we cycle; recall
the cold spin 
wait; await

science fiction

slice of pie, sleep
& star chart. the percentage a
circumference portfolio,
the empty space a
person was meant to
fit. bed, coffin,
hibernation chamber,
he was used to breathing
numbers, oxygenated
fluids, some days his
body functioning like
a syringe, penance
and propriety.

the descent off man

i
 yawn
  onic
   nicked
    turn
     respire
      sport
       sorta
        tat
         station
          shank
           cove
            oven
             valen
              alien
               lens
                soft
                 foots
                  insta
                   steps
                    prep
                     bigot
                      toe

legend

...a method which amounts to this: try to have a great deal of talent and even of genius if you can. How vain are all the poetic theories and criticisms!—and the nerve of the gentlemen who compose them sickens me. Oh! nothing restrains them, those boneheads! -- Gustave Flaubert, letter to George Sand

thunder is a metal rattle
shook up by the tips of high
wave graveyards out in the ocean.
photosynthesis begins in crossing
wakes of stretchers rushed to the
ICU. a small crumbling war
memorial sinking into shifts
of reconstituted dunes is
how the skunk got its stripe.
the electron microscope was brought
to us by a childless persian king
who always weeps for his daughter.
the remington rifle is a masterpiece
of modern matter, the coherence
of a concentrated gaze. if you
say out loud the name of the heat
of the core of the earth it will
spin in your direction.

map

cilia. the constant transportation &
trivia. just think of it as a bigger

box to house a self, a life time, line
segment. transpiration of leaves

and the coming address was. correction
& the position triangulated. tertiary

treatment and the restoration to the
environ. in the morning the sun rises

& the city's circulation approaches the
condition of automation. wakefulness.
paramecium in the dish.

cruxiform

kiss the mysterious
helmet, the over-
sized gloves.

the broken astro
naut. pool of aster. a
tether.

piled ceramics @
the sink.
reentry.

farm

     witness                 what       
               bird        whose        
              advantage       of        
              a    beak adaptively is   
          bankrupt,     fit more        
                                  for   
                      feeding   than    
                                  its   
       god                              
                                given   
                                        
 body                                   
           for          consumption     

the c.o. said, said,

a tree puts out shoots, puts out
fire, he said & then the
fall evident in the colors of the
left bodies glittering the
ground up tire
treads. fear to.
angles.
a tree
puts out.

you will not at all ages love what i love.

a man returns from war playing a poet and has written on scraps he could find of the monotone of bullets. there is no one understand. he'd be better for worlds as merely the tool he's made. it does not repeat or end. if you what he what the make of kill and be told words as written shoots. end in the end the end ends eventually empties the magazine of words after word of log logo in logos the black and white cut is ulteriorly the blues and the tool made man or monument the only kit is a guns and blues guitar.

colloquial

in the hand worth two
w/ one stone. together.
feather. little told on
a wire. early
catches, flips the
naked as.

counterfact

make a claw of grip around a word
rub tender of shrunk cuticle, tear
ligamented silhouette of her
pain moan articulates
of muscle memory imagine

not i, me

i have to ntime
not time to have i don ave
time i ahve ton temi

thy thai

BETTER TYPE FAST BUDDY

no no time it is time to time
havenots haves times these times

time gime gimme skelter havelter no tii

rook of the forearm

again the beak
of words will i be
tomorrow craw
stone

duration

it is the week the hyacinths first purple. low walls of stone still cut sloppy fields, and an old cat strolls them again. they are gone now those who dreamed of sleeping at the tops of mountains and brinks of cliffs. void of people the earth slows imperceptibly, now three minutes from horizon to set instead of two. in dim air the cat falls. the cat too dreamt. of a blur, of flitting brown fur with vanishingly slender means of escape, and its own dreams, of inevitable missteps, of beginning being eaten.

flying buttress

what particular   adhere
nce to admitted   access 
ibility we will   scrape
knuckle or nail   finger
edging pleasantly   by
event horizon   depression
eternity reckoned   of 
miniscule remnant   of
peace attenuating   the
means we held   producing
moment, poetry,   meaning
organ for adding   with
out viscerous   increased
attentiveness   determining
cluing, culling   cling

asymmetrical

          in the breath moment
       momentary wish of equipment
        equipped pulse whitening
     white sails disembarking the smaller then
           small mitochondrial differences at hand
      in hand to squat by the bedside
bedtable growing wish eyes that need water
   watering down flesh and glass

plumb line

 to get that fidget
   open that whoah!
let out that figment of
             the imagination i'm
   hung on a filament
           i know, bulb.
         the monster
             said
             mentalese will be the end
      of me, have patience
      lay on poultice, limit the spread
      of all diseases, soothe
         one fair maiden
    order yr depravities all in a row

the susurrant demurrage of will-o'-the-wisps; or, accounts of luminosity in Barn Owls Tyto alba*

Min Min

Min Min

Min Min



*night brown white gleam breast underside belly body hunt bob swoop flash

traffic light.

fruit.

angle of.

is to say.

this.

autonome

a platelet spit-at
heart by contract, don't
sweat the constriction in
lacrimal relax, long lives
the liver in aggregate
stimulus of the lungful. what
vein erection the kidney
inhibits and the uterus
secretes. gland of balance:
loss in sphincter
dilation is but
the gain of a pupil.

tuning

earth in its eyelid. the brink.

the blink. a way of rain.

this paper flourish ascent.

the floating on the radio.

the scythe. the bricks.

the days of the we. the week.

looked   forward

a life

             suns alight


       breath
          strain


  at full length
                    window


    please

brief

you cannot come up to a kiosk here in the South
and say you want to rent out a Big Nothing. might

as well ask for a breakdown among those murder or
killed in action, in intent, in malice or in spite

of aforethought or predestination. for every thing
a category, as our founders decreed. we have time for

one more question. in the back. i cannot say. we were
trained to kill or capture the enemy. maybe try the next

window.

sign-on statement

comments are to be cemented directly
& avoidance of the apparent piecemeal
disdained, this is not a forum for
the expansion of minutes in a day
yet we heed the need of the lengthening shadow
our attention is to be clearly fixed on this
& as our words will quickly mark
the elastic necessary in physic's spoke
the bicycle already clearly wheeling
about unsure of its course in the mists
while we are strangely attracted merely, if not, merely

recollection

not the kind arms of
attention in the      on the
color longing mache 
cup white obedience worn
muscle red the      the curtains the round
red on disposed territories nation & addition warding of      you

the greening death clothed
white bare lark dried white
absolve every entropy

nostalgia

high stretched 
starward hands 

this air feted
so i, await

ing space, 
vast stars             i will 

come sleep
at years 

to constellations 
one star to 

with turn-
ed kid-time

coats 
let each
 
ring                   be 
the awakened

topological

a word & he was birded

behind the
needle legs, the fight for gristle

trickle of black
undertaker, the cat, it

it makes the eyes
attention of the seating, single spaced

snow & drop, fire &
hierarchy of wood

provisional: ends tied together, meet

   hive
his each moment out of water

wash up on thought
shore, surety

sky

sure always is a safe word if yr
planet held

confetti

breath twin will surface
fates assembling spiders

                   orbitual
navigating the head

crosshatching
             of air

grinned full of loose luck
fastens on the tawdry sparrow