World Sheet #5

TWO POEMS

 

1. Pretty Constant

 

 

  The maze is sensible

An entire upper floor where

Dark and frazil birds

Drown in milk.

 

Charles D. carves

His bloody bleating goat

While the swirl of Asian women

Drowned in milk.

 

Drowned in company

Wings like linen

Stones in the night apron, coming home

 

Drowned in the manifold stream

The nervous system of a crane

Drown in milk.

 

 

2. Duty’s Abandonment (A Constellation)

to Theresa, once again

 

 

silver spurs

of her hair jingle

 

(liquidy

psalm)

 

for caissons of brushes

that swoop to bruise

 

a cotillion

of blushes

 

whose escorts and guardians

impale the birds

 

(those bitter

Sussex girls!)

 

constructing a cane break

of twittering stars

 

in darkness’ abrogation

she shines. She shines.

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