20171219-07510 (wing)

Wing 

wings of bronze
can't lift us very high
but they stay with us

20180320-1634 (enclosed)

 

enclosed

this is the raw
stuff of bonfire
the poet's voice opening
 

20180320-1623 (rocket)

 

rocket

where were you
right now?
next to me in space?

20190218-02017 (feather)

 

feather

feathers waiting
a sneeze of flight
over dense sleep

20180320-2135 (burning)

 

burning

idol wood
death mask
of a tree
 

20170228-05524 (imagine)

 

imagine

at this height
discs of light
are spots of time

20171219-07689 (big eye)

 

big eye

with an 8 ball eye
what's left
to ponder?

20180327-2085 (high window)

High window

under a 3-storey mountain
on a microscope
slide

20170829-06167 (wonderland)

 

wonderland

wooden spoons
candy moons
the joyride of relation

20170901-06453 (interior)

 

interior

all that is air
weaves into
solidity

20170901-06453 (escape)

 

escape

the inflated heart
(suspended deluge)
noses up into hindrance
 

21080320-2103 (flame)

 

flame

a candelabra
paintbrushes
dipped in light

20171007-07123 (entrance)

 

entrance

our latest cities
are corridors
of luminous spikes

20151005-0398 (run)

 

run

running hope
slows into
a decorative silence

20180327-2516 (monument)

 

monument

silence is vertical
tall like a tower
only pain and noise are horizontal

20171219-07500 (angel)

 

angel

look inward, angel
burn
with avoidance

20171219-07601 (prayer)

 

prayer

a prayer
desire's double
on its knees in air

20171219-07543 (jacket)

jacket

thunder's raincoat
wanes
in life's waxing fire

20180131-9094 (layer)

 

layer

a book's pages
fold like lettuce
releasing a syntactical howl

20180206-9450 (facial)

 

facial

stony camel
in the dark of the desert
the air burns and barks

20180320-1604 (bombax ceiba)

 

bombax ceiba

old women and old men
gathering cotton-red flowers
for soups and teas
 

20180320-2094 (origami)

 

origami

the body's gates close hard
on its geometry of nerves
leaving violent bricks of light

20180327-2171 (variation)

 

variation 

ouroboros
change bends around
to swallow its tail

20180320-1368 (flying sword)

 

flying sword

slain birds of lightning
a thousand
cuts of language

20180320-2095 (future)

 

future

heaving cities
weight without memory
lead without weight

20190218-02076 (accordion)

 

accordion

music like airless pain
cries out
for compression

20180327-2527 (city planner)

 

City planner

aspiration shrieks
glamour builds up
over the people

20151005-0396 (fly)

 

fly

bat boy
Icarus soon over
the sea-room

20180320-1326 (pyramid)

 

pyramid

gelatinous tower
uncertain as Babel
about its language

20190218-01975 (flesh)

 

flesh

flower of flesh
its hand held
over its open mouth

20190218-02008 (ingredient)

 

ingredient

the smallest planet
ball of bone
winking out in time

20210420-6587 (performer)

 

performer

say you're an albatross
with its body gone
struts and spars behind you

20210420-6592 (off-right)

 

off-right

asparagus bone
deep frozen lily
fly by the moon on my face

20210420-6598 (straight)

 

straight

feral pen
cut into jaws by the press
of chiseling light

20210504-6605 (together)

 

together

cold swarms
grow urgent in warmth
pushing chaos into comfort

20210504-6628 (boy)

 

boy

encased in serenity
fixed in the orbit
every boy takes

20210504-6616 (curve)

curve

straight edges stand hard
forged in sunlight
curves are sighs

20210504-6623 (rest)

 

rest

freed by a sculpture
a prosthesis hand tight
in the lust of self-sufficiency

20180320-1859 (jellyfish)

Jellyfish

the flight from ordinance
makes you long
for the grace of disarray

20190218-02072 (vertical wave)

Vertical Wave

you see pattern
coming at you like a tsunami
you won't escape its ordering

20180320-0971 (eye)

Eye

a wheel pinned to a cloud
braces the world
against the whole cloth of night

20180320-1312 (electric)

Electric

an airliner bee
struck by lightning
weeps jagged honey

20180320-1868 (sunrise)

Sunrise

sunrises are rigid these days
pulled from a spaceflower's ovule
by the bureaucrats of ether

20160228-9909 (spring)

Spring 

spring is cautious
early flowers
dance black and white

20180206-9395 (small book)

Book Wedge

rounded thoughts
perfect for a corner
back against the wall

20180206-9439 (bite)

Organic Bite

jaws rhizomic
threaded
the tongue a curled leaf

20180206-9494 (desire)

Desire

tract of eyes
nests of eggs
desire cradled in nacelles

20180206-9476 (triptych)

Triptych

two subjects and a god
three peas in a pod
reverence is odd

20180205-9363 (politics)

Politics

sedimentary speaking
in public
folded promises

20171009-07226 (celebration)

Celebration

given our inertia
our celebrations must be
glitter in turmoil