Aerially
geometric but along the periplus
banana tree rot and magnolia shade.
The
list lists intercontinental architecture schools
touch
recalls spire, mater, dolorosa
and
the strip of dirt through crabgrass
a
walk
or
flight over roofs, a
jump
quickly
away and where
the sidewalk is, it buckles.
Potholes,
sinkholes lead to ingestion
pickled
stalks at day, roasted coffee
at
night in fog taking
the
river smell away. Cartographically
a
mare and carriage circle a statue lit
by
the shine of
hundreds
of cigarettes and patchy red faces—
touch
smooth
iron embedded in masonry, a sign
“House
of _______” torture not mentioned.
An
official sneeze and four square blocks get
cut,
relocated, pasted
no
matter
what
house what grows in what cracks
carried
away. It gets carried away.
A child watches a terrier through
the sprinkler
mimics
a push pin
stuck on the flattened globe.
* * *
Fingering the garden, they dinner guest, they
why
oval spoons not
flat,
not scraping edge?
shell,
stone, bone follows cochlea
beet
root and asparagus.
Together
three spices invent a fourth,
mortar
bowl mash and delicate ligula
in
the OED “find fuck”
The better part of
light slips away
knife
sets set against plates,
what’s
corkscrew efficient?
Correct pocket key
pressure dispersal pops beer bottle caps
the
OED “god”
The
book box of hats of clocks
but
little wall progress.
Much light administration grows beets faster, boiled,
beef
wrapped in pork
fried
and baked
medium timed tines
placed
why
all matched
why
all chair seated
why
a table?
Congratulations!
Belly rub
and
a palatable recline,
sticks
in the top soil
“find fart”
Dye
property to dye other colors
mixes
messy in jars and bring back for a garden refill
the
jar, not the garden.
* * *
Each
sweater, coat layer
slick
under umbrellas, dips
in
a stoop
ore
from the mountain, scaffolding, rock by rock topped with mortar, keystone, rise,
rose, risen, grandfathers with crushed chests leaving children, worn
or
bright coffee and beer doors.
If
coat, bus. If not, drive.
The
touchable air a television screen
broadcasting
through pants,
static
hair, embraces legs
floats
the buoyant body channel by channel cracks up
the
redemptive skin
at
war with the weather
heaters
burn dust to dust motes, blankets churn the pajama wrapped body, a mug by the
window, radio of refugee camps, babies conceived get born
traffic’s
unaffected
and
a shower image includes one’s jewelry.
The
uncertified and officially wet surprise themselves
opening
doors
with
grins like pews repaired, smoke damaged pews.
From
the bridge it’s possible to say “gale”
and girder sparrows,
all
hands over cargo crates, the river.
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