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

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

relent

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

emergency

to sleep as a fist
grieves, shrinking light

to sleep as a high diver
falls (balsa wood kite)

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

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

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.