Aught, no. 15 (2006)
sever
i)
eyes catalog the smashed. names whirling
in
each
fleck of color
in
each
whirling iris:
a) a healing elsewhere,
perhaps
in the ripe
body's lush field;
lash to sibilant handspike, incalescence.
b) I judge you by what
you
have used against me, devoured
( sui generis ) as fire, mistaken—
a heavy glass rests in your hands, I see it shatter.
c) outside a white
bloom shaking,
its curved
stem.
ii) while beautiful remove
everyday death
in children's hearts, a) hunks of it
(drying) b) cracking off (glory
diaphanous bloodstreams, portions rounded
pale) iii) soaked thin breezes or midnight
pools, a) the fires
which seem absolute:
b) lip after succored lip,
interstadial solutions –
unhinge the tango measured iv) in caped erepsins,
oysters, dials: a) pried open
a scream b),
the
sound
tender, a taste. c) an infinite
number.
Rearrangement: water vs. shore
What's not for a girl to love–
The coat of the mouth, the flavor of ruin.
Consider the murk of dwindling, the thatch you took
For sass. The
saucy accidental
Wounds, the roughed gunwale turned
slick terrestrial carapace.
(In the daddy state it's illegal
To
break your lily flicker of a smile
The
shadow
Your mocked hull broaches) Magnify
A tinge of dust. The sky and the sea even.
The heart metamorphosed. Flown.