Poetry
Teach me again how to hold glass. I have forgotten the gentle touch of your words.
Remind me how glass is like a river, how to slide the cutter along the line we've made together, having measured twice.
however mother the morning always from the mind, how every glamour misrecords the ripening with munitions, first to do the work of others, however our colleagues arpeggiate the palace we have always loved
with kelly it is estuary, almost a carmen sandiego kindof wariness, cloistered if not unrelenting, a heat that hardens to the point of the spear. one could almost agree to the ural mountains
The world resembles a cuttlefish changing colors And shimmering. —Arthur Sze
Sense is a poem with 22 ilkes ruins a carp of bothersome hand bells or sanded to round stitch a whole fundy sometimes that old mustard feeling
One crosses the street, ribs like ladder rungs leaning
inside him. I want to climb to God, ask and ask.
The streets are full of crushed plastic bottles.
I loved the words, the names,when I was a boy whenhis blue eye turned meto the muscular heft of arms,Winchester and Remington,
Let your dog runsee where it goes
what it turns upwhat it brings back
a hollow yellow balla blue baby shoe
a rabbit-skin glovethe thumb torn off
a shimmering star-ling fluttering in
Thirty scarves I finished for whom I’m not sure nights awake knit knit pearl. I wrapped them around my neck gave each one a name used the wool of rare alpaca llamas
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