lullaby

go to sleep little radio
little turtle, little shell
shine in yr sleep & gleam
little bomb, little song
yr time has come to listen
yr time has come to fall
come yr babies, yr cradles

lullaby

hush & buy you, & mockingbird
you sing, but only what yr told &
keep yr eye on that flag, still high, buy
& buy you & horse & cart & yr only
as good as what you sell to what
you buy next, o sweet economy, o
sweet town, still favored & filled
with apples.

lullaby

bitter pain, like a wind,
don't tell me you don't have
sickness, in yr bones,
yr time is yr head pressed
in glittering tunnel, stitches,
this acute moment to consider
one more last finger tap, tap,
pull yrself together little bat
descending canopy of qualia, cloud,
tell me again about the passage of
white, weather

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

what white will w/ you

and take to be taken & cloudy
the sky filling its glass, yr ears

learn the necessary horn, the
flapping stars in the lake & bacon.

please find these socks to be
self-evident, all dead created

equal. the cow's in the corn.
sing the blues. tie yr trues.

homocumulus

door bell
car man
get yr
attendant
secretariat
we'll let
you in
lock & key
this way
then
clock tower
scaffold
you can see, o
say you can
see the city
one cloud
a reset
button
push
past down
the hall
to yr
left

success

stop wasting, it said, yr
time, it said, get, it
said, then a life, what w/
the pact w/ the astronaut
& the noiseless falling, first
the eating, then of dinner
the lying in bed, stop, it
said, the wasting, it said, then
its own love for the trees &
the naked. the kissed & the
dead.

shelf life

chrome like car like can opener like
get in and out of yr jeans like salt
like lot's wife like preservatives like
plastic surgery like our bodies eating
eating out our souls like carnivores

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

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

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

washed awake in the aquarium

please you gods don't
tap on the glass, please
wash yr hands before returning
to work on the employees, they say
it snowed on the green
mountain, they say there's no
film of his death, they say heat
shimmers out of the burger king
across the street

parlay

sure always is a safe word if yr
confident enough using it like a
fence but how it bends on brick
and grout growing the small
circular rings. all this going to a knife
fight with a fire extinguisher.