tacit aggregate to find
owl choir
and the dead what December knows
arrested under a carapace of light
scent of fir
not anything yet born
the son a daughter or
unspoken owl choir near
call and in the ebb of night
linear purple at the horizon wing sloped
possible tune among minor chords
what diction had once
what Emerson
and the abbreviations of
the unjustly slain
dropped down among stones
most common waves
syntax unwoven
washed up as scenes whose eyes
multiply you and the aluminum bed turned
girl running down a hall
and the bullets the pearls
freeze in the mighty as if
black floor sprung door to door
gist delayed among welcomes
patterns open
Bach cello arcs and
Gould’s phantom breath
drawings on the wall
so the hand is motion
elusive givens
sleeve
caught on a nail
mandate shredded against history
that mirage
geographies as maps open into
the abundant false near
intimate scale
in the dead of night
the lost key to Dublin’s sorrow
and the evicted
saved diaspora word
hope hopes
trials that await good
to inform these letters
up over for the other plural web
to dwell a phrase
shell and sail
small wind
absolute clarity to set out
modes of retrieval
as the Hudson’s impassive stare
ludic cry scarce wagered unfixed
such old particulars
salvaged
from the quotidian
its categorical yes
spelled out as gift
what turbulent vistas the raptor swerves
crow and buzzard
and the sign of the heron
O pond life O lilies
roads, roads, roads
hoarding their kill
damaged speech
sworn in among initiates
what guests
in the circuitous iterations of law
folded as in a box
the impatient ban
reductive pixels
captured in time’s open mouth
and that which is feared
is kissed.
Thing life construed as frequency
these small patterns to see
shift as the perceived
intent
my own shown among them
their inanimate embodied welcome
and so would put down put down
their relation or assent
ocean unfolded as veils of salt
salt poured into a cloudy glass
the very taste of blue
and in the dream slot
an immense cloth
blown
place to place what is so is what is
and depends
to bring these intuitions
in the demeanor of a search
to look for to scan
pie cabinet
spool of black thread
yellowing page
flooded street
photo of a girl
drawings of an insomniac
cry of the jay
icy step riot in the square
flood
the near
as the waters recede
to save
atomic gloss rapacious thrust
the one by one among us
little cousins, little citizens of death
unnamed along these distributions
ignition of skies
sliced into apophatic plateaus
common as dust and those
who chose did not choose
leave us
bereft among planets, casting our
simple awes
error, stitch, error, stitch, stitch
into whatever is next.