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