For charity, she huddles by the grooved track
    rating the speed of the truck; mare's
    tails rase the screen, while her eye drops
    fuel in the gaping bed of yellow rape

    and its cobalt border that swims with estrangement.
    Within a bank of weeds cold as snapped
    beans, each digit of its advance tipped with polar green,
    her hand must dry and whiten in his hand. The rampant manger

    where the slope is bound, by the chrome-white of the
    river arch, feeds her from his palm turning to bone in her
    loving. Brown-out of traffic, the manor grays and curls,
    both above and within the weed a change to latency:

    to fear in bitten molars the white latch of the gate,
    the spasmodically textured countryside, washing a
    corpse's mania for many splashes of place in white
    fluid pouring from the statue of his horse.




    My attachment dissipates like the v on a river.
    Panning a square plot of blood with seaweed
    delivers corn clusters of odorous hardness.
    In pinafore swung mulched pockets over three
    periods of day: flashy morning, a hard hot rod
    skewering the stomach; roseate day, peed on the reading rug
    with a shy skirt at prayers and swinging out in the lunch
    yard; night's untrammeled magnet, gleaming outward into space
    like a sword. How gravely rubbed, these stones,
    manky with jewels of colored paper, in my guilt of memory,
    how wished for the white dress of the queen of god.


    Overhung cotton candy pinks against candy fir,
    a horizon of light dims the supine beds and canes, dip
    by dip withdrawing sensation. Currents of oared air
    ignore skin on the face that focus tightens.
    The myops can get correction by suture to standard
    parallax: bare incision of the duck tail in fragrant
    water laps an area in all known time. Every year one
    abandons for cash and plans the veil of formality,
    as it is known in the younger body, as it encircles
    the memory of a former body. Paler hair on my nipples,
    crook sharps, and cotton brush; romance in bed,
    when the sword flashed vacantly across the glass.


    At day end, exclusion from the trench of real
    seriousness clacks harness-bells, and vitriol hurry
    is unharbored for sweet remorse: the barrel flowered.
    Spring declines on work; fingerpad unearths a play
    stove and its terra utensils, caked with investment
    in real seriousness. I pitch another claim on my bowels,
    learn to restrain impulses and homestead my corpse;
    always as, as formerly I swung the stench away,
    though now am less entrenched in it as form of focus
    on sweetness and delay. At any time it is mine.


    What was, lost. How my vocation hummed was first lost;
    then confusion of wine with blood burns; a walking
    rhythm buzz which first heard sound in snow then
    stumbled in the cup of my hand. Will breath be next,
    the sharp indraw which cuts its bland incision on smoked
    teeth, yes it will, the body who claims it drains already
    demoted lees. Thought cocks its rubber arrow
    toward the staggering calf, sudden cramps asleep
    demonstrate the dissipation of mnemonic pain.



    Ocellus

      lying low in pusillanimity of fear


    Wagons pennied with excuse sagged past
    in a three-frame slide. Air, wet, ranged to
    my window, shut, and without rumbling
    at its empurpling discharge, we tucked
    in white sheets to our Bermudian bed.

    How we think of rasing pinneys of one
    perfect tense. Crisp after the token
    fever throned on that vast prospect of flatness,
    my corpse wills itself upward in sincere parody.
    In objectiveness of denser gas, dry-racked

    along a few hundred meters
    it prepared a penultimate lecture of regret.
    Lay me out on a hard plank. So I
    might reckon total silence of my will; but,
    that incumbent panic not mimping me so far, back

    through the hazard zone under its orange circles,
    regret and pointedness inflating while I verge
    in our speakeasy's contracting cavity.



    Foxgloves snipped from highway scruff
    she tendered the jars
    plugged in heavy cases.
    Twinkle of weed
    in the felt-black casement,
    a portfolio of blank responding.


    What is beautiful is emptiness as it becomes
    intermittent. Like an airborne contagion.
    An unsaddled radical of space whose next
    is a dull, flickering point.


    Skim of the water burning off
    plasma is not invaded by
    small lips and strands of black,
    until it is totally casein plastic.


    Rackling the casement up into the air,
    she fills her lungs with lead
    toasting us, our projects, our vain
    incontinence





    White popped and spread in the hazard field,
    blowing a perpetual accident into a unitary
    glass shape. Which pitched a further space

    in news of incline. Lean-to empty
    beyond where dust disperses in enunciative
    billows. I go there, I cannot go in it, it is

    a breaker to me. Moving me towards
    an apology for the moment as waste
    if not wasted as in a metastic trance, floatable

    towards the presently distant. I wish.
    It's something. White cracked and scattered,
    its permanent dissipation was though loss

    at least within mine and my mess of it
    regarded joyfully its wholeness, its contours
    moving into themselves gave me rise.





    Strewn etches freeze hillocks where they
    crest, panoramic weed, cold as halogen scratches

    on the bulge of the lactating eye.
    Thus the urging fails to unsettle gray gas where it

    codes weeds with public travesty, or unbuckle the
    silver band of our great member river.

    Privacy mocked re-clips its stomacher breathing
    raggedly. Smooth skin of water, admit it;

    mud freezes around the empty ankle tracks
    where she was dragged and followed limping.

    The older staff, cooked free of their duties,
    lock up the oars to go mock at quiet versions,

    on their porches. There is no settlement before.
    Even now shoved by laxity of conceit: plunge, from

    barbs of sick weeds and wet
    soil this erotic longing is tilled,

    pooling at a ha-ha before that bank of weeds.



    Vanish

    Peace where the wound is, flapping like a burnt egg,
    rampant with bubbles whose odor bursts to
    spread gold over yellow spikes of ambition. It
    makes nothing of me, nor of the face frozen in wood.

    Because I relish process, washing my inbuilt concept
    box, I must fast against process. Wish
    to seep gaping into that burst flesh and be
    cell of its kite-like corpse, patently do not.

    Instead, meal of couch grass licked by dog hope
    to earn another vapid right by feed loyalty.
    To vanish laboriously; that incessance seems
    different, a cut to limp the bright open flow.

    A loop-track proof, it's mentioned. When the sun
    drops it likewise collapses atoms of an open
    bud, wrecking previous provisions. Peace which drew
    me to its bright flesh pulps and pulses without verge or entry.





    White Wish

    Condescend to particular joints still glowing
    yellow-hot though no longer injurious, sad
    not for characters but for silos isolated, stormed,
    for their fresh endless fruit. I say so though
    I no longer believe it and this wish burps
    like a fever blister in the ox's gut.
    If it breaks when cool untie the expert,

    who believed in it, cheaply. See how milk
    pours a curtain from the cold solder,
    we are never afraid nor eaten with loathing.



    Our convict was found in the cinders, bubbling
    his relinquishment-made-mannerly escape.
    Certain objects behold our incapacities as
    primogenitors to fortune, though really
    it is love we bear towards one another.

    It sounds like the work I do, however,
    my bitten lip sucks flavor from the white gradient,
    where another cascade, another task,
    freed from death or ignominy, and mantled up
    so fashionably as to point out the breasts,
    draws its fiction from waste, like mineral water.
    Solution, not apparent, so case chaffed again
    over the prison field where yellow rape blows.



    The Former Character

    With child in the back, where are her
    clippings of virtue in mind. As ragged
    as slips they torment that mind
    blowsy with a wish
    on her only son, who gets scraps off
    the marbled bed-book.

    Indeed each time I come here I hope
    I come into the body into which I am
    stricken like straws into brick;
    laying the ambient carpet not
    with cumulated yellow of my fat but
    with my virtue, in mind;

    by this total gawk of fluids alone this hand
    rubs the first throat seeping into
    oblivion. I couldn't say.
    Needless to say he is always also here.

    Inscribing on ideal dissolution by
    inexorable physical power, my hero.



    Their Xenophobe

    How I love thee, my diamond-point,
    when a child she stung the flower base in raid
    notching her deft settlement against
    the dark fluids seeping from that base,
    then crept back under the rottable steps licking
    fingers since each knuckle of her corpse was
    primarily odd. Making a zero of you
    nature emigrates back into your
    nodes, where I lance my latest idea.
    Pathogen of memory, historical item:
    now only the white wash
    where floodlights hit offers the safety
    of project. From you eventually
    to watered milk, that is not back.







    How I Sighted Yellow Danger

    We, managers of placental risk to bear quickly
    to our rottenly tepid air, rip the final leaf-strand
    in acquiescence to our visible fear.

    Microfitting nothing where this acid dip
    has worked loose denticular remnants
    from the soft, lisping palate lid, she and me,

    only gabby tackle in this large white crib.
    Scarring marks the northern rim, we believe
    these germs to source another public works

    perhaps further down, in the canella bank.
    None of the pockets from which
    we drew powdered calcium have survived,

    only the pressure of bones into solid tracks
    held up to the constant oxygen rushing over
    the mountain flank. Bronze hammers ring chantry

    on bronze pylons along all the docks; lift
    the shadow her lashes cast on the fine work,
    repopulate with stones as the rest of it is.



    Save which he would destroy the land, send back
    rain from hickory woods where a body was loose
    on mossy hillock, remnant of damp; but he found

    none to build up the wall and stand before him in its gap.
    Busy tearing flesh from the nail, busy with domestic
    arrangement, I couldn't find the card and he was not

    standing before me in the gap, below which arable fields
    ribboned with yellow husks, and this spring. Plates just
    electrically locked, denied access to his bright pastoral face.

    Along the treads of the perimeter two ferns of bitterness
    soaked up any slight condensation. I believed I would eventually
    be right, a shrine. By virtue of my wish a loop emotive.

    My wish begged a blockade at that checkpoint, an honorable
    promoter standing between civic disgrace and my tithe
    gone elderly in the sun. He would melt like bronze

    when the pure face showed upon him. If wish accords
    with accident and brings up the missing object, then weed will
    become aloe and fields blaze with rows. If wish can it can

    sicken the very veins of her blood. Apologies, then sir,
    melt cavaliers to footlong puddles, and when it arrives
    there is no belief in cause sufficient to create a will.

    As it said, the smoke blew up around the battered wall
    because the characters abjected, and laid in corners
    at deference, listening for their circuits to replace.



    An Ell Down

    She takes these mistakes like rotting bread, mid-famine,
    stalling the descent to bug and flaked leaf where actual
    horror which could not be reversed. Above the mottle

    double cities of desire bloom, hovering badly as black
    sticks and branches sweating on a typically wintry
    bivium. The pain which racks me up like an accidental

    joy, cannot be trusted with expertise. Because-this spar
    of chemical fire, lifts the cavernous body into action and
    levity like an empyre ball; while beneath the marbling,

    gem-colored, purpling floors of an unnavigatable heaven
    the laying on of hands cuts a real figure on the pink of the
    ankle. It is dancing. Look. Scanning the bulbous horizon

    that recoils faster past each gold palisade stricken with our
    hard-drawn phlegm, we see. It is so. Then as another
    no'east bash careens inward like a heavy black car or weapon,

    which is eyed, it swathes open the west, bringing a perma-marker
    smile on another wave of isle weather. These eminential lines
    sweep from the heavy yardage of black unpredictable Atlantic

    swiping our -cities- over in a pawed wave: so much, for
    seasons and mockery of wheeling. In the deluge they fed
    first on malted bread. I see no reason yet to dip into the insects

    of the plainly recovering earth.



    Raped by repetitive indeterminacy, by which the empty sac
    of my body was tossed again and again
    into the air, I gathered up the rags throwing them into the furnace.
    A livid trail of yellow nosing pond bank

    separates molten silver from tangled deciduate masses, where a
    filigree line of the stuff should hover,
    in it I see my future, gentle engineers shoaling up the bank
    where the populace surges.

    By renewal I mean back to the crib, slap and brightened eyes,
    knot a cabbala of stones against the hyaline air.
    A desperate wish, for deliberation, shows itself by flickers of blood on the face-
    could it, um, it, will the relation of my figurines.

    To articulate frenzy which sediment curls hibernating in the plastic
    sacking under that tundra of crud,
    requires. The motion gutters; how much to pay to plunge back into the
    fields of livid rape, drain their oil,

    and cover the dermic freeze. Lighting my chin by switchback yellow
    under the descending blue smoke,
    in short anoint myself livid and amazed: the wish is reassembled wording so I
    know now from the heap of my figuring.





    And Awoke in the Glebe

    Gulls, dots, shrieks materializing: by cries and glares
    tossed from calisthenic sleep. Pieces arrayed
    on jagged shale-lip in the thousands Answer


    Answer it. Sheet of poly-crimson, sheet aureate, pleats
    white where the drag's gone in arrears; ripped mug shale over
    which the doughy lip bleeds a fine thread, without force or irony:

    feting up the happiness of this discard, a snuffy rag.
    Patted siena clay darkens also by urine over her
    mottled face. I wish

    to walk back into town fearing, and with it its value, that
    wends hundreds of objects eating over this field.
    Fighting needily, twisting blood into whitening skin, take


    a look backward: so they emerged
    at the south face, from the blinding
    heat discerned not the arms of their
    friends nor their own humility.
    The last comedos erupt on the otherwise
    clear skin, especially cheeks, nose and lips.


    Lush and tropic buzz, will it carry?
    The unsolved hover monitors it.
    I am on an ordinary outing, come back with a
    sticky grasp of herbs for my lover,
    and the still rage.





    Here, flattened from gore by the white rushing
    outward leaving, only, a deep blue stain, he pricks
    sod for fuel whose limpidity burrows it into the sod.
    Faith slow creep back to the cracked shodden shell,
    where he treats as if he were-air my peril-
    less indications. Angelic menarche
    mmm fans up from the maying seed-bed
    god maying grace, a wheel,
    a row. Bereft of symptoms in the height
    I wander over, and pour out
    the euphoric pinks. Turn me there, fan
    of yellow to the neck, around solar
    parity fills the reeking soil, where a faith
    in wishfulness approximates our regular toil.