my birdlike finger for your calypso influenced
toe program
two dancers make the night sound

what strings lead to 
pulling & others
to forget

what wealth without snow
what wheat in the ground

a jacket for the gathering dark

 

 

short out the talk for a while, son
your moth’s a blooming, but no one corona
can make out its stem 

 

 

the birds are not a theory
            glancing down from empty branches

to show you I mean business
          here’s a card & long walk back
                 through the parking lot

                         ______

dog whimper hits and stalls at the backdrop

 

 

                                     an erasure of stories        the way
                                                              backwards through
                                                 a language
                                                   letter by letter
                                                 comes full
            this thing learned, modeling the bodyparts

 

 

                                                  one step in training
                                                  is leaf
                                                  another
                                                  connect-the-dot

 

 

flesh reft of form—like sheeting