whereas fortitude a word thoroughly doused



           on the park bench a particle of dust



fractured forests cartoon semblance



situated in situ, following mysterious large words



                               there is a messianic room i try



to squelch. forms follow forms fall down through air



i walk fortified for three minutes of vigorous doubt



                             bare arms holding up, hands balance



gaps. beribboned lovelies, dogs pounce, juggernauts,



                               revolutions will televise, overcome



 long minutes of existence; the cameras are rolling:  :  :



                      everything on this date is created



for each minute of existence there's a dream for every



                    occasion, grapevines and factory dust



still the censor swings incense says silence



on the stilly air someone wrote: days come in breaths,



series, patches of night punctuate, death's a grave



                     reminder, love's a carnal thinking on



gray havens lyrics green mansions spinning songs 



                 a raft of modular furniture



                 records a bottle of water and empty



purchase of wings bend to the angle of madness



tropical corners, flat surfaces, humps, dry grasses



abstractly -- do you find this problematic; one questions



the very breath, upon waking or sitting up



a plan: : : there was once a poetics but then you made plain



                      that was just about the survival of the fittest



just about where the next spring flows into the next channel



i mean where natural narrowing occurs in the rocks drift



or a place on the map where the streets meet at an angle



a corner where we meet to exchange gentle substance

From Ruavista: Signs of the City (photographer's name not given), Berlin, 1920s


Glorious Cans


settle on prefabricated underwire stasis
fat blocker, stretchy lace tinker toy tricot

apple delight is after dinner mint and whalebone
stays under tooties for uplifting and glorious cans

oh but sadly worn weasel pretties are falling
bridges and rosie petals of metaphoric organs

itch on nostalgia for smooth advertisement
button down hooks and eyes tweak inside

bunching up nylon with elastic thighs in sweats
lint balls and filligree elaborate scrunchiness

in for the moment of freshness; walks it off

Invitation


Fancy Leaf Dress Ball
cancellations not accepted
dames with fortunes
welcome, bring poodles
bundled in plastic pop-
up sac dresses satin
leggings with caffeine
colored slippers, glass
eyes for the brutish
consorts, a party favor
to be carried in sockets
where you be sightless
lost in your bad skull
harboring a cryptonym
mercury lavender fizz
tabs under the tongue
never be bored again
oh come one come all

Image by Camilo Quevedo, for the Gimokud: Melting Soul project

On the flat dull rocks a ruddy figure passed, full sheaf in his hands. Sounds like pith in the familiar scenario of a romance. A variety of loomings and depth charges carry on the whole like someone's past that I could forge with enough electricity. Madness seeds take off, umbrellas in space catch on the flowering nightwire, break up digital flow. Numbers flock across the sky, caught by the webcam's embrace, and reflected in the mossy tarn. The geese say why why why.

I saw your madness seeds in flowering nightwire
May brush the flint from the strands separating

And on the dull flat rocks a ruddy figure passed
full sheaf in his hands, grey buttonless coat

Something pithy he says, poised for the webcam
Sliced through layers of romance on the tarn