the far off buzz inside your head
for the clash as it is happening
impressions of what's been
for a rapid hearted breathing
for electric in your spine
always pawing at the ground like a stray dog
one running reel all the time
it's true
we are finally seeing eye to eye
into lanterns every week coalesce
and divide us into wine
no matter where you beamed your attention
underneath it
you couldn't stand the taste of brine
while my heated brain resorts to distraction
so contrary all the time
it's true
we are finally seeing eye to eye
into the overcast you vanished
off that narrow lane that leads you up until you can overlook the cityscape
where you contradict each guess of mine
rang up to your apartment
waited
the door swung wide and out you came
they can arrest you where you're sleeping
they're gonna listen for your breathing
we better make this quick
I can imagine next time meeting in the blur of the lamplight
sing out
reeling carelessly back
this can't be the best adjustment to make
every surface plays
chase me around
can you ratchet down
took a night train south to reconnect with real familiar faces
lately, the ones i've seen match up too late
did I greet you with a toothless smile
you're scowling up through glossy pages
I nod but I dodge those words you're saying
could take an interest in what you're reading
an indication of your genius
how neat the plans you hatch
I don't remember last night's meeting, just the haze of the lamplight and
she across me with her slender hands clapped
this can't be the best adjustment to make
every surface plays
chase me around
can you ratchet down
can you ratchet
we were waving our hands
jumped up on the median and barreled inside
where we may get denied
where we may get denied
like the salt-white wooden planks washed up on the shore
all sanded and plied
I could level with you easy as a stranger
just a coincidence
somebody that I know who was making a point
get completely entangled
don't make such a sour face
for the chance that you grasp like a rope that will surely drag you away
Dear Call Center Voice: Murky questions multiply. Ever-shifting walls in a maze designed to drive you--
speeding into view
lights streaming
I discover just a coincidence
somebody that I know who was making a point
get completely entangled
so I rushed out the door
one direction in my mind
on that cold marble floor
on the last red line
being shaken leftward and right
only drinking
a drop at a time
all your setbacks and rewrites
oily thieves that you string up high
where are they now?
With your paper tongue
with your vapor thoughts
May Your Bottomless Stomachs Devour the Block Entire
honey missives,
columns shining,
weather-polished, whispered appeals,
riots and fever screams, or
straight-laced speeches
the velvety carpet rolls out like the tide
whisk me safely inside
in a lake of
drawn billowy white
flutter off
still ensconced in my spotless skin
and when I breathe cloudy peace through the night, I wake not once
have you something new to say?
like so many wind chimes
like a long-winded answer fallen silent
like an anchor I fish from the silhouette sea
I had a clear hundred years of designs
I won't change my mind
let the moon shining down kiss their eyelids awake
in a lake of
your figure emerged from the replica entrance
maybe it's happening
maybe I spun it from this Finnegan's dream
half-past four in the damp air
dimly I saw either the coming of dawn
or the flicker from these shimmering screens
who is riding underground?
the best that I ever could unearth, yet nowhere to be found:
a shred of definitive proof.
world'll likely never know why
detached from all good sense
left grasping good as blind
one hundred wild ideas
like a mirror to the sky
the image changes all the time
so is it so hard to be reminded?
after so long you surface
it's strange, unless I be insane
follow the gold lights on the water
up to the windows
encircling the feet of the docks
in through the glass panes
on the ceiling
our winking moon telegraphing
we get washed with thin eyes
so I can see you are brimming over
stayed since your havens are failing now
they can't let you go
whatever reason to keep repeating
arcane and mundane and neither who you are
we watch the people go
step down below
walk the station stairway
and they turn and wave
at one time we wandered without a worry
cure what you can only understand as stars in a line
before you get back home tonight
fine hours we spend tilting closer on to the scratched tabletop
so I can see you are brimming over
stayed since your havens are failing now
they can't let you go
whatever reason to keep repeating
arcane and mundane and neither who you are
we watch the people go
step down below
walk the station stairway
and they turn and wave