from The Messianic Trees
I have your man here
his colors fortify me
I refer to schedules
incandescent blitz
farming the corridor
a slip of a girl
range and domain
apart
the universe is deep
but we are extremely wide
Donnez-moi un peu de l'espace
atomistic practice
Three skies
paradigmatic
occluded prelepsis
don't know what that means
visible support
Arkansas
since 1991
the whole motor surround
as easy as is
ordinary mind
you can't find
because you'd be going
against it
Three kayaks
coming toward us
the sun on the water
a shimmer
nothing further
and this nothing
reintroduces the proposition
an arch across space
time conglomerate
packaged to slide into a rack
the industrial nations
inventing childhood
in the image of obsolete commerce
The abstract beauty of buildings
aging in sun
indicates an ache
in the personal transmission
between what is there
and who says it is there
in their underwear
tree sections
apartment
roof
when I get there
turned out to be from the 70s
you flash so fast
scattered
and arrived on the same day
a map
from the 18th century
the look of references
squeezing
Local hero
commingling granite
antipasto
a laugh in the face
starline
bituminous lakestrap
incendiary
wing flame halter
bathing in the bash
for likes
and a suntan maybe later
all contours of expression
revolve two houses
down in a banging sound
these words as obdurate
as that world we enter
alter
Borrowed venue
parenthetical sweep
pounding the building
into the concrete
stand up and go away
the motor dimension
handleable
What later readings
come away with
is no business
of this
ant patrolling
edge of desktop
approaching notebook
now climbed inside
Roll with the outsiders
the land of hush
stains it with laughter
colloidal
ambergris
blue poles from all the
way back
as if another person
then sees it
fading toward afternoon
a light glimpse in a busy station
life shot through with
five sounds
convergence replication stamina
a field for tacticians
unavoidable
point blank
then I'll see you tomorrow
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