change your life my drowsy flame
extinguisher-fire of a lifelong drouse
dancers in the crematory oven.

white hot ash, homo-sapien
ties youth between two skies
grafting purgatorial states
to the human nuclei

feed and bathe my shadow
thoughts’ arc-mirrors insist you distort my form
repeating blindly in perpetual digression
twirling the lie comet under and over
do not ruin me
do not investigate my fear

snow green sounds of subordinate spring
(time shed its skin as we slept)

rayed-world, the apart time corresponds
to lost love, a fragrance desire cannot reissue

morning-throned
i am the night’s ill patient
puzzled by a world i assume tiered

brighten-captors,
i have raveled in the ellipses of desire
a pair of cardinals, fires in the blue of green

taught by a silent series
November-eves reappear

summer nights of Eden
animals –
suspend the hands
of the clock garden

Black ravens
apply their methods
shriek-swarming in half-light.

you tire.
i compound the room’s shadows
repelling noon’s halberd

incongruent, these
cannot revive my division fires
–

Beings
on the steps
asleep

i have walked in the world
to watch them wake.
Now amber raped
Full of august and the dream

they were
as you are
before you appear

each thought of you
houses a replica.
I fathom duplicates — runic
arbitrary

I lie in shadewinds
hair on cold smooth stone streets
blind twilight unwinds
injecting yellow cards
between shadow cogs
overloading the tines– into light
idea of day; dawn
ignite.

In all that takes place
i ask why you’ve left.
years pass.

hearing him speaking to a window
hallucinations

\
a relationship decomposes.
become acquainted with another

doubling surface areas, snow

a relationship decomposes
becomes acquainted

pull my name across the desert
polyphonies agape

rolling and unrolling, rose-yellow.
one substance segments into day.

let go
of the drunken bell
nothing able will end you
once you were never drunk

when the patterns cease to replicate
all distances are equal
when the paths cannot be known

when he descends the spiral
exterior/interior
witnessed from all sides

maternal voice
vox-horizon
is obstructed
chimneys buried beneath waves.

hunter in the neighborhood
seer in the city
boatman at the end
of an anchor chain

We agree and disagree in degrees
it is warmer in sunlight
truer face to face
it is a body lodged in clay
for air it waits - waits - waits - waits

deciding
I play

a white drawer
holds a marked boxed
in a room i cannot make real
a room in a dream.

the intonations
numberless,
childhood

our family tree blooms
thick with morning dew:
Sunlit crushed glass;
death picks every piece of fruit

i’m told you’ve searched
the stone coast.
we did.
i resent you in time.

the water wheel threshes the river dry

in our yard
he is carried kings, naked
deathed, descending in sunlight
the brightness of each rib
diminishes
brightest at the center.

he desires.
motive of knowable origin
idea, body-graved

while it is too late –
dry straw on the water

desire’s open windows

when Babel tore apart

my pain is sure

gray shield
Heaven’s boiling point

gamma ray
disturbed nest
tomb-wall fortress broken

its gasping thumb smears

the man whose step
is uncertain glances
at the reality in flight
that exists as a consciousness.

elder water:
home and disaster,
two resilient mouths
masticate my memories

torch flowers.
able-bodied splendors
laughter watchers
breathe, time’s immortal vapor

girl of the blood dirge
i witness your red
our encounter, last of the lasting
first to be spider-spun
I feast on that web.