I found my coat
Next to the words
For leaving
I thought for good
Here we are
Spilling gravity
Into the graffiti of
Poetry
Giving chance
Its due
After transcendence you end up standing in the dirt like the rest of us
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How to Calculate the Disarray of Beauty
Time is a red scarf picked up by darkness.
Light is the celebration of that vision.
The Digital Pollen of an Abstract Afternoon
The way here is through particles of self and to the dust and the sea and that breath.
Distance and the sandwiches.
I forget all my head and I don’t like it where is the weather of himself to wear through the streets and along the train rails.
The broken brick lay in a pile a few yards from what’s left of the industrial structure: the flowers and the plants interceding.
On the rubble mound shoes probably me with them finding the space listening to the nearby fields no sound but in vibrations my self is the song space.
Getting Out of the Fish Bowl
Sidewalk puddles
Of the city, the rumor of birds
On the ears of steel rails.
In spring, the robins are first,
In the yards, in the lots,
Even before the worms.
I write
Little poems
Open to interpretation.
Taxi cabs are wisdom.
So are basketball hoops
Screwed to the garage.
And in our glass lives
The outlines
Of light and the sea.
Post-Work
Foraging for paperclips
On the moon
The clerk alphabetizes
Piano concertos
By tone.
Enumerates the asteroids, some standing like an upright bass.
Makes a note: a foolish nostalgia for the 1980’s is the hobgoblin for neoliberalism.
All the while on stilts with a telescope, the clerk bird watches.
Clouds in the distance like the blushing of elbow smashes.
And so foolish are these ledgers
Chances are
They’re true.
Emily
I’m thinking of a hoax
The size of the sun,
But like the size of the wind.
I’m thinking of tenderness
Soaked in starry I-don’t-knows, how
Pretty Emily Dickinson must have been
Staring out her window at
Tarantula stars
Beauty is Jest
Beauty is jest
Is simply gross
Beauty is the long legs of evening
But for an overcoat of dreams
Joy begins to fill in
Where there are no lines
We are left naked
Except for the sea
I carry the clouds and sky
In my beard beneath my
Fingernails
Moon Dog Starry on a Rust Belt Road
If the canopy of sky
Is too small for your skull
Try a list of hammers
Numbered by the throes
Moon dog starry on a rust belt road
Has Always Been Here In Me
As sophisticated as the rain
This simple commotion
Ample in regards to brevity
Staggers like lightning
Down its short fuse
Quickly but I remember
The walking part of the soul
And the distance it must succeed
Dynamic Simplicity
I carry a paper bag of flowers, the petals are blue, yellow, and orange,
Early flowers, the bag is a sandwich bag, it’s dawn,
I put the flowers in a basket and bike home, the sky is blue, orange, and yellow,
My wild face, in momentum, how is the dawn somehow starry after all the stars are put away?
How is it, just for a second, this wild face among the stars, on a bike, with flowers
For the dining room table, to be with books, and pencils, and to have breakfast with,
Encourage me to open the windows, they are the better part of me, for a few days,
In which time, I’ll write what seems to be stream of consciousness poems, better yet,
I’ll put on my canvas shoes and walk till my stomach growls
For the fire and fever of tasteless stars.
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