crack the association, windows holding something back
curtains cutting social tongues, an uncaged robin
blinds like bobbins scored
spooled around with money
i’m hungry because i’m bored
i’m a cave shadow collapsing, honey
you can do this, put one foot in front of the other
remember that the eye is the you, capitalized
blinds bobbing under the weight of the projector
i’m a cave shadow collapsing, the protector
of a long-gone princess, follow?
Tin helmet to the blindside crumbled
Week-old Italian bread
Crushed over fresh arugula
Titan got hit.
His mind green jelly baby puree
Squishing squirt of hot butter candied
Prophet peppermint pate
Look up from the pain
Airbus A380 sky streaming, lickable bright
Cotton confetti a candy grey cloud, giving up.
yr typical wanting poem
gouache object of desire
elusively layered trompe l’oeil
Los Angeles downloading
New York cruelly
papier collé Paris 12
not a feign 10
of perspective 8 paid
to the shot clock 6 winding
down —
It
3 could be me 1
really, should have been, but,
the tousled crayon flowers
ape their Pulitzer plaudits
like epaulettes
, but,
have a drink
another embryonic epithet.
Total darkness, like youth
is a beast to be eliminated.
Dread beauty crawling east
across county lines, red
ripped hands and ragged knees.
A thought here, dilated in the past:
Her fading eyes swipe at the horizon
Like the loose threat of a rising sun.