I.

In order to show
I hold no spleen
I'll gladly
have an affair with the moon

C.
 
Look
dear niece
I have
cobbled together
a frozen rosebud
for
you
 
O.
 
Throw
a book
at Pound's
head
brain suck
to sponge
up the language

N.
 
My baby's foot
agitates a tune
What a pretty
parrot
He is hung
from the willow tree

S.
 
How
can I not
imagine
you
without a fork
stuck
in your throat

You Know Me As
 
aureate starfish melds a watch face constellation
maybe if you could focus those electrons to agree
outline light would be less bleary and more crystal
 
it's the apparition that doesn't compute
I had caught her at a bad time
her phoenix fight flight about to crash and all
stone peony offered held some comfort
unexpected pleasure in the coolness cannot be helped
 
I am wearing my heart pulp vestment today
don't fret about fathoms and leagues
their mere pocket tokens
hourglasses that count footsteps

Inamorata
 
The menacing black eagle of Prussia
bears down upon my bloodied robes
I'll tie my flag up in their mess
 
Christ's shoulder is lambent    His head
falls to shadow inspiring Cecil    The cadaver
has spent his whole life devoted to public health
Nude males have fundamental parts for academic training
 
Hold baby over mother in your left hand
Hold your sword in your right     
Some will come freely and wait in line
Some might necessitate a house call
 
Jacob wrestles a mysterious angel on the Jabbok
The grinding muscle sensuous is tiring me out
It's hard to be Lehmann when you've given your all
and upstarts (seurat) reject your paternity
 
I know Mary mourns from the trusty swords
piercing her heart   Joseph is always in the dark
His head leans to shadows   If suitably oxidized
 
and coated with verdigris by time under earth
or sea    you could be mistaken for Manon in the wilderness
Arm lengthens sky     hip hangs sinister
I'll undress for you but it's your favorite general 
 
I wish to impress
the importance of your death
quiver  saddle  armor  drums 
a madman making himself a wife night looms over sleeping
morning   Veils define her face
 
Women observe the conqueror while they hang laundry

Tarn

dead lakes tear the dirty ground
malaria trap and I'm known for
sweet blood        willow trees
are beautiful but their ghost ad/dress
gives 'em a bad wrap
black thorn buried in my palm
remember    awake bog people are
real bog children laugh
like laundromats         lost lollipops
a whiff of when I was young enough
to know everything how exactly
did I forget everything and still recall knowing
 
midnight crow calls me back bog
again chimera cleared
it's time to take form    focus
hocus pocus when to awake
my mother tells me
I've never been young in darkling
willow arm      embraces
but I recall lounging in still water
stone garden guard asleep and quiet
pregnant with you     born between worlds
I knew you were of a different orbit

Mockingbird Sings Lament of Car Alarm

Absinthe pterodactyl has a mean creek tucked away in his blue gene
razor miasma organically parallel in voracity to maharajah disco-serrated attention
get us a coke love
ita i iti ballet sea
Humboldt Humboldt!  Conch umbrella under duress! Invasion of Jesse James enthusiasts
wearing leather vests manicuring NY meat parks with gentle interdental panic hands
moo chew tarantella
and all that jazz candy
Adhesive miracle of ambient cerebrum triggers worm-hole in the big app-o
Mangrove feathers for carnival dress combust in mock microwave fashion

Talking Heads Tell Me They're a Punk Band

Stay hungry you gentle men  be speckled
in feathers for Mardi Gras mess
Here I lie on mossy matter for firefly
tombs thinking on sleep in dark daytimes
I might have it figured out
 
The same sun that uses a third of your blood
supply stretches thin a skin rise highway of
sexxx shops        Death is the ultimate
phenomenon of nature
 
The four sons of Horus
Daumutet   Ismeti   Hapi   Qebehsenuef
will protect some very important pieces of
monkeys with metal earrings        a common household pet
 
Hinge hip twinge cracks the first tundra I hear   wooden
flute snap but the Chinese dragon with nowhere to go
had already hid behind a subway car at the first sign
of acoustics and wasn't interested in metaphysics anyway
rover stroll through the cemetery with me
until we beat the sea

wrist slip tango

snapdragon smolder fingertips dyed pomegranate field hawks
watch sex slip from your holy sock that i eagerly collect in my back
pocket the only pocket i use your wrist jellyfish beholden asks
take me by the surprise to the lake formed hand in hand we climb
volcano neck exposed to your long toes shivers from intimate
excitement fever but I promised a crater lake and you love to swim
serpent style file I lead on to the top of Vesuvius dagger angle wrist action
looses red button shirt over my head dress trembles slightly side step away