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.

bbiatrek

dessert: cracked pollen; entree: tears, not eating, crying; appetizer: stomp! hallo!; snack: sprig of green tree, cut, bled

derivation

     aquarium of bodies
  de   lirium

             "...blind, do not open
              their eyes for the first
              12 days..."

             eyelid fusionate
                              ani-
      malrium choice

        "...in the tree was the maker, &
         in its cells, the eater, 
                           eater-of-all"

didn't freefall from the tree

at three
years i was made
to invest in
constellations. that star
one is connected to
star two, return
to start. repeat
with me: "these things
turned out not to be true." good,
kid.

afterlife

trickle of black
                dried
  movement of the tree-man
       the jay distr      acted

       air closes in

         tried, try
         treble, tremble

       icicle

evolutionary tree

certainly circumstance circadian
prevailing preventative pressure
devastating determined detail
valiant variance vertebrae
chaos cakewalk contraband
proposition

translation 1

tree
rock
fencepost
yellowing leaf
grass

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

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.

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

transpire

numerical obstinacy. the network is
full -- how spiders determine to
hijack a tree. the wind is full
of wood.

descent

whose rib, whose
wainscoting

color & atmosphere share
an evolutionary

tree, a tendency
of xylem

a gut of
autumn

theory

simply, that i diary with
improvised
in the dead
wood

of chains westerns
joining on indoctrin-
ate of fathers
livers

the tree
line

none of us
dare past

said a simple thing that
stuck
a word as were

dinner
come

eat inside focus, brows
nose

ridge

in gaps in knowing
stars

consider the liliths

were there one branch stripped
of bark and blanked knobby and
naked i would not have eaten
of the tree. after. after? i
remember the reason being
my heart was all hard. any nest
could not have been pieced
but only appeared whole. this false
inviting to the rest of a
bird or squirrel's spring,
how could i merely look? i believe
i would have rested in its
roots and slept if the canopy
were not woven without seam.