Macropus Eugenii

U R so K-Selected (this peach has wings)

Celebrated for changing attitudes
so spontaneously
on pant length
and Vibrio,

Nidifugous by nine,
public transportation
her right and calling
ground,

This person is sought like generous uncles,
whose fingers are nimble to part constraint.

Through the rack focus appearing,
I sally
to the bedside on toes.

Who
would wind sheets
across boundaries xeric

To shed slow lines of growth?

Who’s encased within the limitless shag
of brass ensemble in procession to the lake?

Rappeldonner

Like Hoevels and his knife,
Baring down with unaccustomed freedom,

Or a family of six sitting down to dine
On the cold limbs and garments of the late Sinatra,

A type of magic fire neither benign nor lacking pigment,
A hand from the mountainside

Filches holy crumbs
From a stronghold stretched

And whistling between oaks.

It Depends on What You Feed Them

Border Briquette Barium

A strip of ground, as at the edge of a garden or walk, in which ornamental plants or shrubs are planted.

A block of compressed coal dust, charcoal, or sawdust and wood chips, used for fuel and kindling.

A soft, silvery-white alkaline-earth metal, used to deoxidize copper and in various alloys.

Archway lit within, speak.

for this planetary alignment gone westward and woolly,
to set distinction between points on orion’s poor posture,
all slept on amid the coriander chests,
all cancelled by the worry

between janus’ blue and red minds.

 

we step together into the streaming gutter,
our arms about each other’s waists,
and out again to warm windows
that blast and stretch

as forethought arrives too quickly.

 

the letter slipped inside the land
to touch the inner surface of creases
that lift ten feet up
those who skate or ride, making velocity

into reason.

Calling Panther Lake

A voice emerges from raw trunks
Met in vehicular gale,

Sounding t-t-tuh into shucked lips,
Spilt over palsied chin & burst spherical about wax.

Lying under and over the glass table for days,

You rest slanted for the narrative arc to sting
And sequester eye with eye to something dripping
For you.