02.03.21
Driftwood (bright white) turns the flame
blue at its base,
Diane’s slight shake and
dry mouth
I watched her turn young again
and then a bit drawn and whimsical as we became reacquainted
Put to work at her bedside
transcribing tiny new Revolutionary Letters, Dawn Poems
snares that are set to explode across centuries
into further collapse?
Dream after Christchurch
After Freddie Mercury writhing up against your ear
turn heretic
and teach me the changes, elated
deep in dream
where I might find you
turning again, slender to the night.
-In memory of Diane di Prima-
“The poems are
so minimal
because the garden
is part of them.”
mirror left
in a meadow
of sea grass
the lights point
their own way
out in tiny
stabbing gestures
(desperate) devil
at the end of
a crowded field
just his head
with both arms
held over as one
shadows break
to fake a moment
the rest past,
cold lake water
eye level
behind a screen
of winter trees
Venus left
lying on
a white
blanket
green intrepid
ferns or standing
nude before
the back lit
blinds, exquisite
doorways
comb the
sand into
pattern
the evening
sun and well
worn brick
“My flowers hang
from a ceiling
of leaves.”
for Ed Berrigan
Wake up
Feel around for shoes
Sit warm at the wooden table
Write a tower of praises (oblations?)
in cold steel
type
in praise of Ed Berrigan Industries, its massive
sign tilting over
17 Reasons Why
(Now taking off!)
the crypto
liquid metal
skeleton
still shows under
patches of
torn
ankylosaurus
stickers
We once got trapped in Mark’s painted
side shack
illuminations
(Back when Jack held the most titles….
I feel much tractor about things now
(and Selected Poem)
I feel long house
needles point
Icarus shoes
Sloppily painted plates
stapled into a set
A coliseum for playing out music and
poetry’s distortions. A kind of signing off repeatedly,
All this time.