from “Freely Espousing”

Freely Espousing

Hmm. 
Hannibal,
banana, 
bong.

Words commingle
That’s their story.


February

It’s It’s It’s It’s
gray, getting grayer
I can’t quite see
the tulips.
 

With Frank and George at Lexington

I feel
like  
things
are
shrinking
?


A Reunion

Harriet Beecher Stowe
meets grandmother.
Goose


Quick, Henry, the Flit!

en route to
en route to

Drat the mosquitoes.


A New Yorker

I
The many
many

anywhere in Europe.

II
or anywhere
in Maine


Walter Scott

not


Greetings from the Chateau

Alas.
a balustrade.
made of bread


Royals

They
may be
real
the sky’s
the ceiling.


“The Elizabethans Called It Dying”

seen 
eating ice cream
at a HOSPITAL in Queens


March Here

barking
GARAGE


Fabergé 

“My rubies are
just for you


A White City


December

Each
over-commercialized
other cheek


Ilford Rose Book

yellower.
illustrationy.


Rachmaninoff’s Third

reflected
off the River


Money Musk

I’m gonna crush
this list
of Wisconsin 
novelists.

Note: The poems here are re-writings, translations, elisions, and/or distillations of James Schuyler poems.