Saturday, May 31, 2014

Garden Pipes



Kansas or Nebraska

they’re all trying to
               dance or paint

               professional
               locusts

devouring

the North Shore

               and

faded brittle flowers

               dark
to admit
this calm

never held out

               but I think
what I mean

a man

his architecture

would show


(1-inch window, left-hand margin, p. 240-243.)


Friday, May 30, 2014

Portrait in Oil



the world

just this side of
blackness

a blaze
               of splendor

tenderness


(1-inch window, left-center margin, p. 236-37)




Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Blue Difference



come out

               lyric
               gamin

the
hired girl
and her

pointed breasts

the answer to this

a
back door

a
patch of
                              floor space

women                 brushes

the dais toward

 


(1-inch window, left-center margin, p. 230-235.)



Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Earnestly On



push back
forehead

                              her unaware

you work
               in that

between
board

every hour
forgotten

step into her car


(1-inch window, left-center margin, p. 228)