Saturday, September 19, 2009

peak the hollow



the fastest way to expel--
always uncover--
is to look at the surfaces of three hundred
and sixty
the limestone
the mirrors
the brass
but you insist on
a gerbil wheel
or the cyclone
to play cards
and with weaponry
i shake
admire
the mintyness
of it
the way
what animals
would theorize
then you embellish
a spoke
or rim
to hymnals
and forgetting the war

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Ballet of Small Rooms


cauliflower grows in the stratosphere
it’s a different story up there
it’s too bright for someone disinterested
in the appetite of a youngster
who does not yet have a vendetta
against blue
not yet concerned about facts
like the way rocks change currents in a river
or where fiddlers
or which species of tree are unnamed
what city is october
how many grains of salt to turn water to brine
how many colonies have picked up and left
look
at the lemon pulp
suspended in water
a ballet of small rooms in a glass
how much would you charge to strain
algae from a swamp of this volume