“owl”
 
early,
hearing
that am rain

delicate
many years in
roman numerals,

down the risers
of 6 cement steps;

& it left hatch-
marks, up the sides
of prison buildings.

“butane”
 
pennsylvanian,
they burn away

all fuel,
in the dark
part of a park;
flickering. take
me like firefly,
or lighter ...

“filament”"
 
a white-
hot, hollow window
of fire vibrates inside

you, screw.

“gazelle”
 
shapeless…

a void in your soul,
and ethiopian eyes

… hurry;

feed me, ripe,
seedless fruit.

“obeys j”
 
walked on
america's living
room floor; heard …

wood court the rubber
and saw
spectators, who

parked their
cars above asphalt.

“family”
 
the summary
of native faces
is exposed

bone,
each winter-

these trees, branches,
crossover the horizon

& stand, thick,
against a sky.

glad,
maybe,

to be seen, again,
naked before spring …

caught up,
in that air
they put on.

“crack a safe”
 
that death march,
athwart a low-calorie train
—front of the dot office.

i swear;
a bell was clanging
wagner's ring cycle;

played
on wind
chime.

“peer amid”
 
that one seeing eye
likes to have us close;
as it does away

with flags,
& trademarks

new land;
holds court,
judges war

by a show
of hands.

“twitching”

persistence
has made patient
the beast

we were
warned of,

kept at a
distance …

“canon”

her uncircumcised
eyes, verses the owl;

leonine brow;
simian cleft;
turtlehead
and neck.

beauty is a clown,
with freakishly sm.
hands & cute feet.