careful, is a word i have lost--
a wasp a winter on the sill
of the window facing the capital
of maximized exploitation--
also a hawk above the shear
of green-black swamps glinting
septic disingenuity and frost
in vanities of ethical lack--
and a heaven more magellanic cloud
than timesink rote of scripture--
and half the mind of a serpent
evolved well beyond the winged soul
of any ghosted breath of cat--
that i apostatize devastation.

an unleased laundry list of blue eggs

skips an audition via Skype; rain the newest
new new; blackmail a field gone to heather
recording logs; seven timestamps later; owl;
blossom house; drugs on cats on napkins
in the Ionian Sea; scissor-sleeve; a baby
grand infatuation; the sleep of bottles;
botulism; botulipism; a cancer for a brain;
we spare Paris a whisper spur of spurn;
trellis flac; you; Kennedy & King; eat only
irony; that does not exist within my dreams

which crescendo and abate in sways of aubade;
a four billion year war; and sorrow and pity
for the morrow; cousin; every nest a pyre.