from The Line
"The town, therefore, was garlanded with green trees, bright blossoms, delicious fruits and trailing vines . . ."
1.
morning draws it from bed in socks in soft pencil & squinting out
i know to the west of here is sea
2.
i dream girl-moth and embryo whale . how come how pretty : these tiny highways
inside-page the shovel makes . i trothed to : spit a seed and it grows
3.
this morning each bird's name tags behind it or hops when it hops
train whistle blowing : bandit juncos i'm stuck in fullsome prison
4.
the line pulls . blocky seams stack neat . sectioned torso of the tree i knew
robin's egg came into my hands without my willing : birthday 1988
5.
grey silk dress of uncertainty and i can't hem it
i find a feather-lipped nest on the west house wall : birthday 2010
6.
on foot the slicky travellers cross the field both ways
behind Willow behind Pine behind Dry Creek shopping cart bramble : green sword of guadalupe
7.
uriel's sword of green vines behind cathy becker's house
the river was somehow downtown filled with convicts mother-of-god trash
8.
some substratum of despair aquarium vitae . aquarium : i must have breathe : ad fontes
a point is that which has no part . a line is a breadthless length
9.
i petalled into bed bud did not become : a boy : a wind : everything
the line is even and odd
10.
how everything tasted . boundless equation skips . and add and add and add
concrete : tree bark : scab : skin
11.
a thingly quiet : some telling : all breathing : high above
the block hazed violet . i lined sprinker cantations : myself
12.
sycamore i thinskinned sycamore i . a spell for not harming . each
small palm in mine : woodpecker junco sparrow starling robin chickadee
13.
stranger hills are nothing a blue absence
Umunhum was watchful : my father-terror . the boys said they came upon the body
14.
the old lady's roses . i wanted to inside-name them : cynthia . agnes
beneath the peach tree the book depository . all winter i never knew : green pages fan untended
. . .
1.
morning draws it from bed in socks in soft pencil & squinting out
i know to the west of here is sea
2.
i dream girl-moth and embryo whale . how come how pretty : these tiny highways
inside-page the shovel makes . i trothed to : spit a seed and it grows
3.
this morning each bird's name tags behind it or hops when it hops
train whistle blowing : bandit juncos i'm stuck in fullsome prison
4.
the line pulls . blocky seams stack neat . sectioned torso of the tree i knew
robin's egg came into my hands without my willing : birthday 1988
5.
grey silk dress of uncertainty and i can't hem it
i find a feather-lipped nest on the west house wall : birthday 2010
6.
on foot the slicky travellers cross the field both ways
behind Willow behind Pine behind Dry Creek shopping cart bramble : green sword of guadalupe
7.
uriel's sword of green vines behind cathy becker's house
the river was somehow downtown filled with convicts mother-of-god trash
8.
some substratum of despair aquarium vitae . aquarium : i must have breathe : ad fontes
a point is that which has no part . a line is a breadthless length
9.
i petalled into bed bud did not become : a boy : a wind : everything
the line is even and odd
10.
how everything tasted . boundless equation skips . and add and add and add
concrete : tree bark : scab : skin
11.
a thingly quiet : some telling : all breathing : high above
the block hazed violet . i lined sprinker cantations : myself
12.
sycamore i thinskinned sycamore i . a spell for not harming . each
small palm in mine : woodpecker junco sparrow starling robin chickadee
13.
stranger hills are nothing a blue absence
Umunhum was watchful : my father-terror . the boys said they came upon the body
14.
the old lady's roses . i wanted to inside-name them : cynthia . agnes
beneath the peach tree the book depository . all winter i never knew : green pages fan untended
. . .