LATE IN JULY
His intelligence happened to be transparent. Eyes
blue as could be brought
down by excessive light. He lay along the daybed,
breath poured out to me,
allowed a forwarding of each eventuality. I live
on probabilities. Watch the
game erode what confidence in selves might impolitely
lack hypotheses of
integration. He declared that we should talk,
confirm the misprints in news
stories with an obligation to be interesting.
There were willows basking in
athletic light. I blame the elements for everything
from frost to high
humidity. How would we make the voyage between
one and the other of us.
Give me a noun I can exceed. Each tiny contest
protests the proposition of
a finish line. We are all a part of them. The
minute that the sport stops
being cooperative, I grow into an audience. And
audiences have in their blood
a form of cruelty. Olfactory images that retrieve
summer will remain distinct
from him. Perhaps he has not known the kind of
weather that requires stark
clothing that supposes a protection from the
scalding. I have a photograph
that I resemble sometimes. Even without these
glasses, there is twine and
rigor sledding through the sheets. Our conversation
seizes trinkets and an
isolated form of quiet in a practical variety
of pulp used to secede from
integers that once revived us.
A vehicle driven by my learned response, suppression
of a would-be instinct
PARENTHESES
There is a lag in temporal progression. I wafer
one hypothesis into another.
Made things envy theory. And why not? The decibels
become the daffodils,
and French pronunciation does not soothe as was
intended. July, the month
of sacrifice. A weather impreferred. In places,
full delicious green requesting
mimicry in mood. Wood tone of conversations leaves
a rapid fire sequential
brevity to answer for indenture. Mantras inexpensive
to the touch recoil
while moving our encapsulated priests. It moves
me to accept the sleeve that
holds a power source termed the original. Listening
to expertise I only need
this moment and will shrug away as soon as it's
forgotten. On a day like this,
the energy remands multiple forgivenesses rehearsed.
Look at this vase with
water that transcends each unseen sip. Regard
this chance to limit our
existence to a purity. Enormous exercises gloat
beside a dream that should
have been released. A fraction is enough some
days. I part with names to
foster sleep. Released from grass stain, cleavage,
sand, moments in arrears.
The penchants waft toward long stretches of peace.
Via vocabulary that
would trace the lead calm with a finger.
Lumens, strain just passed, enclosings
THE LONG ROSTER OF PEOPLE
The long roster of people who want things empties
itself before my blinders.
There's a point at which resentment catapults
to wingspan that belongs to
someone else. Purchasing power torques relationship
this certain way. Do
you wear a sign that says immensity's ferocious?
World excavates when we
are looking troubled. Past the din equations
fabricated by bare gesturing
hands. To offer what you want. An elevator shaft.
A honking horn. A
simulacrum in a practice run. Tear sheets, canceled
stamps. Quaint forms
of luck that promise quirky ways of dissing the
hypocrisy that pins down
numbers. Is a castle / is a fort / is prayer
appropriate for after hours
together? She read well, vividly in fact. Pure
gentlemanly fire schooled not
to show. Unflawed and lacking what a song required.
Read as wide-ruled
books accommodating reverence if it were restful.
Pipes and clean red
chafing. Onomatopoeia. Glass with water, then
without. Interminable tryout.
Verdigris misunderstood. Most perfect cup of
coffee. Plants in dirt we've
saved to use for planting. Wheat's dementia.
Clean break, hammock when a little breeze is tossed and catalogued
Robust constitution, cramped quarters, tepid management of a pinched nerve
Dream walk in a picturesque snow-shaken scenario,
pulp version of a modest
recollection
THE ONLY SWEET PACIFIC
The only sweet pacific would relate to loss of
income, job, or other means of
buying microwaves. This summer, stay tuned to
massive inference recently
jobbed out to comers linked by steady strings.
Still chemically indulgent as
somebody's child unwhittled and in tune with
was it moss or tepid coffee.
Tell me the allure of some lui-meme sacrifice
pilfered from once-around-
the-block incantatory bishops' rings. Plurality
needs tones to measure by.
Some attitudinal epoxy stiff with grace a scald
from used virginity. The
presentation went so well we had to sacrifice
a lamb nobody's stepchild.
Saints give back their mother tongue reputedly.
Who might be capable of
skirting the indifference veined with phases
of the cynical three points of
view still folded underneath the mask of strangers'
temperatures.
Ecstasy boiled down to covetousness, non-transferable
surgical neglect,
whose flowers
Facts of life the children tell adults
Commitment as a strained caboose, the thought
of cash and carry
WHEN I AM BEING REVOLUTIONARY
When I am being revolutionary, tide forgets to
come in. I interpret this to
be a compliment. My neighbors roll the dice so
debonairly that I hardly
know or wanly think what's going on. Extrapolation
is precisely what we do
when building budgets or a hope chest. Yesterday
I learned he's passed.
The brute resemblance to reality was coded in
a full lush trill with hosts
become such babbling yups nobody knew what anyone
had said so far. It
was a cataract of toast across the yarn of eyes.
To tell the truth, I ceased
being a reporter any way you cut the deck. When
there is work to do, I
enlist mostly myself. I'm young, say all the
blood cells not the joints. Say
all the exercises mottled with prompt sleeves.
Whose name is on the first
breast pocket meaning left of center. Heart as
good as anyplace to grace
the happy sun I recognize. Why then defend an
offering / why not amend
a speech in many-minded tongues responsible for
bearing most perceivers
would admire.
A coast-to-coast endeavor, mild in hyprocrisy,
slide panel roof you can accept
with slight parentheses of sun
Thinking, circuitous as blunt-talk split into remarks
Hand about to offer to direct proceedings lovely
and eventual