YEAR OF THE ROOSTER
Summer 2005
:
trapped on the median
by waves of traffic a cloud
of seeds circling
:
:
caught in the lint trap
what’s left of three cigarettes
a new penny
:
in the laundry room
foul-mouthed young girls
a shell far from the sea
:
underneath the bridge
cobwebs swaying just above
the swift green water
:
that spring we spent
in the smoggy flatlands
here in a tube of glue
:
where the blue umbrella
sags hail growing clear
as it melts
:
white noise in the elevator
a drop of rain beaded
on my coat
:
five atomic pencils
your panties stuffed all
the way in my mouth
:
in the basement my
nose against your belly
a truck passes outside
:
a strange town
the waitress calls
me sweetie
:
after
lovemaking you sleep
I check the oil
:
vectors of
pressure converge
upon the single value
:
disquietude and
the exhausting abnegation
crow dilettantes
:
late morning the kettle
steams your panties in
a knot on the counter
:
she describes foxes
nursing a small cool
stone in my pocket
:
a sculpture made
of actions and ingested
materials
:
the wind blows your
smoke towards me
a fresh shave
:
in their pajamas
two girls chase down
their dog in the clover
:
flowing upwards
the pollen that settled
on the windshield
:
home for a
few minutes I change
my socks
:
reminiscent of
a skull your panties on
a stack of books
:
the little master
of artifice leaking through
your third eye
:
don’t worry
he’s invisible in most
states
:
in the June rain
a white spider picks its legs
up from the leaves
:
not sure how it got
there a pinecone in the sink
blue morning water
:
looking in the green
dark for turkeys we
find a tennis ball
:
panties in my laundry
I don’t know whose
they are either
:
a place where the wood
keeps breaking the nail
crow preening in the rain
:
draped across
the television something
one of the guests wore
:
crows in the hot
dusty air the sap crackles
in the pines
:
you hand me my
keys and they’re still
warm the odor of spiders
:
waking in my boots
my socks are missing a spoon
falls in the sink
:
Zodiac Love Secrets
only 99 cents asking about
the eggs the cashier wheezes
:
the places of
reflection become
more confined
:
patches on his
face unshaven the metal
trill of the meadowlark
:
your mother’s stealing
your panties the sparrow
returns for a few seeds
:
