A WHOLE DAY NOT NAILED TO ITSELF

like a floating tissue covered in variants
traveling towards innocent parties,
driving the mazes in the the cracked car
wind whistles through
every encounter an intersection and 
therefore a crucifix so you must
choose, again, lateral or liminal
or threadbare stretched taut between tacks,  
how will you absorb
the thickness of time?

EVIL

a soiled fleece in the ferns
a smudged out horizon
fire leaves in a fire sky
last gasps of life muted by 
actual gasping   
we seal up our homes
bring the rain and the ocean 
underground
smoke air moves 
through smoke places
energy cancels energy
rabbits and crows skirt the human gulf
intolerable if not broken down
crumbs too minuscule 
to snack on
squishy shoes pace 
parched lands
don’t want those worlds 
to touch

THE MARBLE + THE SCREEN

brain to brain 
crows speed caw
protect the lifeguard
dissolve the screen 
the rowers row
recognition returns 
the screens feign protection 
glass knob threatens drop
intersection of the airplane and the eagle 
the eagle and the gull 
set out to repair the screen
computer music and wind
immune to genius 
it’s hot and it’s raining 
same petal as yesterday 
libido snatcher, add your woo
to the crowd 
to harm is to be received
Simone would you go out this late
in a coat with a hood
new girl stamp on your crown
mini skirt talking to you in the 
refrigerator back room, 
for a flash it’s all good, heart stinging
in the blue lights, safe after skidding out
on a slick rain hill 
homeopathic world song 
rolling to
halt