still concave movement sunken tens
no less burdened
threefold deliverance unless convergence
and then nightly grit and
suffused in sand until it glistened
laid bare for us to witness
beheld, no objection in the desire line
a reflex is a green crescendo and it exerts its movement
felled again inside circular logic
spun at the outer edge and held, tension resists any freefall
taut still and at the brim
sightline trained again, spins then orients
listen now the grid is nearly finished
every graphite quatrain its own containment
abuts the border and the frame
still anything can writhe through, slick and pinprick
we all once saw it, mercurial and cut its groove
let the decadent finish and decay work their vessels
all elegance now ensnared
luxury in allegiance— shrouded and our hands are held
assurance granted in a vertical slat
floorboards guard the urgent lintel
handle flush against the floor
all barren kingdoms came last night
in a lowland dream appeared both host and apparition
silent except for when they spoke
through their mouths came their lasting virtue
we each turned our backs to hear their creed
pelted down all crescendo
all urgent timbres call us back
they spoke
all drifted timbres grafted now
I am thirty days across December
why let the crest drift?
built a cradle and crane as fastened instrument
resist the weight and see it’s leaden— lachrymose, I am loosened and green
all decades a vaunted finish
at the epitaph of what did the grid finish?
and what did the grid commit?
four corners, aseptic in their approach
cinched corners
staunch and knitted, such ochre arrangements
spilling forth across the avenues
advancing and viscous floral finish
we were hidden in the filmy range of nimbus cloud coverage
and through its fissures the cellular, ulterior sky became
its crimson future crumbles then
almost ventured at the still-life
vaunted so the burden lifts
blue algae bloomed and crest fell then
nightingale and coloration swallows and acuity
crimson does it easy now
still psalms and ribbons bowed
handle flush against the floor
casework at the foundation
ghost-tens and three-fold logic
what rests just under
sequential triplicate takes time like juniper jade or mantis
or a suggestion to let it be so it can give
bend and let the chorus see retrieval
let it take limb for limb vaunted coverage
split hymns and splayed psalms
percussive thirds round the mantel
still the drift is staunch and knitted, such ochre arrangements, oracle
any urgency inside the pine boxes succumbs to
jade juniper or mantis
mantis then to secretion, a curtain folded back against
operatic logic
housed inside uncut timbres
it lets them ring out
lets the silt echo oracle
all thirty kingdoms came last night
in a lowland dream appeared both host and apparition
jagged edges and then resting, curved
cultivated at the end of December
dressed the timetable and the pine boxes
thirty-seven times the question
mount the stones and should the chorus sound
circular logic in the quiet room
if the crypt is finished then let them in
gilded logic came last night
it said to me what it said
all attribution and covenant
all baseline and promise
all foundation and from the ground up
thirsty in its logic
still psalms and ribbons bowed so
the entanglement is what is given
work the area and make it tender
felled in urgency so the invitation rests
handle flush against the floor
future ghost-tens and three-fold logic
beamed logic then radial crests
the avenues brimmed with silken water
send everything with innuendo
radial crest and pitcher hover
in a dream last night
every kingdom finally disposed
it was operatic
at the ending, it was governed by the final frailty
future lay a furnace then, kingdom brick by brick then felled
Haussmann’s logic or a century foregone
every lit lantern waxes endings
preservation was all they meant
decay was at altitude and all the rest was siren song
let it canter and keen, fold in lament and breadth
breath’s surrender and crest with the next wave
the structure bears its only logic, though heaven did want sentiment
through the velvet texture became a future
