magic i

ed raining belated raining belated raining belat
ack ark prays black ark pray black dark pray bla
y of pins in body of pins i body of spins i body
vity well at gravity well a gravity swell a grav
peated period repeated period repeated period re
bit end think orbit end thin orbit bend thin orb
whole muses the whole muse the whole amuses the 
enses holes of senses hole of senses whole of se
low light speed low light speed low light speed 
wn in angers drown in anger drown in danger drow
vity wallowed cavity wallows cavity swallows cav
mory talkings memory talking memory stalking mem
 self met ending self met ending self met ending

from A.

lay
me down & the moss must be
my
invertebrate me encased in my vertebrate
face
the failing
on
failing meeting as do triangles
sunlit
snap into place, somehow become
brick
and mortal, light in the trees, light in the crease

separation anxiety

the haunting dirigible, there
was only so much time before
the silver was done collecting
& then the exposure to light
light grey, grey, & grey there
is not much difference between
the sky, the sea, the skin full
of whales, our floating on the
line between. the motion weights.

ark

rain late. be raised.
pins in the body. eat
light. like light speed.
be low. lowed. & talk.
or mend. or rain.

lullaby

& good night & sweet
moon & put yr dream
out & sleep moon & good
light & put the night
out & slip light & sweet
tight & sleep kite

should moon, should glide
should lend, should flight

her airplane holding air

white paper permanence
crush the ninth objection clean
the return, up, of
light, of power

phosphorously

you can, while you're sleeping
feel for an extra eyelid, put on
the goggles. it is vestry, that is
vestigial, the need to see
in water, in air, @
night all is green &
groaning with light
quiet bombs. the whistling
of far away, the
whistling for your dog
twitching in his dream.

wake

circle the dining set
slits in the chairbacks a
domestic zoetrope
the stick figures of us
drink coffee, go to
work, drink coffee, go
to work, drink
coffee
the light left on

frayed

i day, why i find
quay, light fray
lay sky life & sway
divine anxi-
ety, when by
was thy & thy
nigh lone to mine

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.

emergency

to sleep as a fist
grieves, shrinking light

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

advent calendar

barn

door

dust

mote

duly

note(d

gold

single

player

light

lept

swarm

sullen
swollen
sudden light
sweet dark
& again

oreash

heron to dock
heron to dock
come in
water side
more i
blue whom
argue
which want
this light

translation 4

The barn the horse the man saw ran past collapsed.

-

God the question asks
does program, or initial
hurl, or puppeteers, or
snores in the prompt box.
Does God underground. Yank
own levers. Look back at
us aboard a beam
of light. The barn doors
contracting space
time close

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

making the bed

a closed door repeats
hermitage & the shortening of
days, the brightness of eyes
a trick of light under the ocean, again reveals
the love of browns & salts the
return

archaeology in sixteen words or less

the flexwork of veins
pressure mold labor
i shovel oxygen
earth collect light
this fossil Horatio

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

translation 1

tree
rock
fencepost
yellowing leaf
grass

light-slat
corrugated board
mine mine mine
see no human face in a day
impalement