flatter sweet adoration

for my sweet friend:


pencil drawn parents
grasps the cup tight bangs
on her window headless sill
and warm slides over the oven door
heating shoulders while hands burn
for a guilty pleasure

a panting dog sports wool shorts
in summer squirts mustard so
swords and dirty words like
underpants. ketchup.
dragonblood.
mother makes a pack lunch snappy crisp
takes troubador mimicry
for that boy only dances winged
and cries when he stops

some kind docks lay drunk on
stars by night whose rum titted broads
floating lit spackle tracksuited tumble
off the dock downward laughter travels
across a calm water fin chanting
blousy big hard chorus
pennies fall out of our nostrils
for quarters make a dollar

so then sweet caroline puts her child to bed
flooded bug hands are travelling from
kimmie's mom through lucy's middle
boaters have an early morning and
juniper seems to titillate garish bedtime fables
a chipped teethed paste sandy
time cuts a pass slower
than the waitress is serving
but liquor is cheap

24 hours shoots messy
trigonometric art over homeplate
wheeling a travelling saviour clipping
coupons 2 for 1 happy shattered
hamboned puppy hour damned pirates at
the bar going aaarrrgh like movies
bandanas created if a ship of fragile
maidens and saltpeter
lemonade by the cup...

and i love her stillness moving
and i love her moving stillness
despite patterns of cavernous shortcomings
the trust we have in strangers

invited

untaken
piglet(.)ooh ooh

parKd

grassssssssp cluuuuTCH
so fuckD i hate u metal carcass

toktok

who brought the question
tightly constructed from
cinderblock basement into
the burnished wood who
drank the meal from the
rust ringed toilet who cut
the trellis from it's mooring
causing the 4 car pileup and
who was that sighted feeling
up your sister behind the
salvation army dumpster
at a quarter past three in
broad daylight chapbooked

on key

like something blue
borrowed love bow
wow satisfyingly un
satisfying M t-shirt

medium well hung smile
a guess hard to tell from
the size of the coffee cup
or the canter in the well
sprung tabletop laquer

around the long
roundtable even
language respects a
dusk dawn feeling
i shall sing praised
damnation away
close the bottom
drawer 2 that
cupboard tight
but not lose
the cutting
of the key

invited

uninvited

a city event

cold
so i drove
having a look
and a coffee too
checking out the cakes today
hearing the melt of chocolate
and the territorial peals of 2 small applecrisped
girls under the nearby
coat rack squealed
like a torn pocket
filled with quarters for parking meters
rolling over the floor cadence
gasping guppies
airless from laughter intoxicant
so heady aromatic
hardly noticed the
landmine quirky in the recital room
not a lover's quarrel
just a little spat

b\lite

hi gorgeous
you could use
a haircut

origins of epicentric disaster modulation

eve /n
buoyed over glassstem

• ever
• age
• exact 15-18
• when
• pictures
• document
• geography unclocked

entrancing ( by a slowmotion car crash inevitable last look ) tornadoes ( plurality) odd / n passing this through the bioethics research subcommittee by the deadline translation

• modifying current standardized formats
• future approval pending

(amended)/annotated signed by supervisor with statistically significant mind and means for standing on the corner asking for dimes. a cup usually does the trick

spang*

broken fourteen
the balcony where the clay fell
breathing
he wore a white truce
a card he passed out at cocktail parties put simply
importers and distributors

weight
clutching track
oncoming memory of the boy who turns

she scribbled a number on his back and gave it away
a sudden quickening

found on the wall while spelunking/strangely inconclusive:no rosetta brilliance boarding the all night bus

fight{eo}phytea
neo{n:eo[n}ew]
,ticketsmustbeshown,

my bloated luck

a friend told me when he was on the street he didn't actually want food, he just wanted to remember what it tasted like.

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tineaskew
mouthfeel
dinnerless
be(crnr)
g
nickldime
the (e) on
askewthe
timemiss
andcanyu
sparesom
this time
this time

________

3 holiday snaps

the memories are allowed again, warm sidewalk
squint gabled crouch on the dirt
another day as an attraction, as a hotcat in the tincan

*

so charmed with bubbled water loose on the bicep
embracing after the years he contacted me when i whispered
poetry into an airpocket
remembering my name

*

damn, it doesn't feel like America
we all jostle together in a pack of cigarettes
and the wild boy beauty flashing the heel says
he doesn't think so either, mostly it's just a par course
for low flying jetpilots
and the idle panic of rice and beans
that is one swell dish. and we all laugh
the 5 gin and tonics making him the tallest voice in the gunrack
that warm sunday night

that new year

at approximately 11 she made the polite excuse
and slipped off to the bathroom to powder
garish small tinfoiled mints in the tray
and a handtowel with embroidered champagne glasses intertwined
a band of favorites from the 60's 70's and 80's reminded the toilet stall walls of the reason never to listen to FM radio.
closing, the purse snapped
like a neck stem countdown on orange

in the night

short of losing the street cred
bang anime abrupt
gives way to white rabbit.
losing dangling participles
mist. train distemper
such a sublime loss the crime of impatience
crimes like holes. trap doors. stuff of the funny pages
that rabbit could have jumped out of my coat
and the moment would have been
ever so.

anatomically corrected

darling
move over
your bony elbow is in my
heart

the untaken invitation

i could have gone
invitation only
and she said
but i did, as the weight shifted

and she knows
the furtive moment
in my brow
trying not to breathe underwater
despite the gallery setting
oxygen neatly provided
in rows

with small taperecorded devices
that can be rented for
a mere 12 dollars
containing convenient instructions on survival

eeep