Welcome to the Jungle

like just standing in line / at Whole Foods or Purgatory

Beyoncé in Third Person

I type Beyoncé into my phone / five out of seven days a week. / That’s because I am a woman.

People's Republic of China Sequence

There was an old man from Beijing: / You couldn’t tell that guy a thing.

Please Don't Text Me Pictures of the Sunrise

That’s not an angel, it’s an ad.

Missions Trip

My white light / will bring forth the garden.

from TITANIC

I want to say “trust me,” but let’s all have a drink first,

(before you wake)

slow and soft / fumbling with / the light switch

winter

she points out the new

Texarkana

here the only monument was a border, / the only magic sounded like a pop song.

Baroque

Scroll. Scroll. The dawn is breaking, war is starting,

The Dialectic of Down

̑ = ̑

Main Blanche

Flowers / Have a monopoly on flowers.

Green Apple

¡Que idiota!

Wittgenstein

I passed through the lip of the shell

The Best Text Message Poem in the World

As you read this,

Poem

then it spoke to Lianne. Everyone was astonished.

The Importance of the Fire Ladder

The fire ladder is important.

Melancholia

If she loved you, she’d escape!

The Night I Fucked William Carlos Williams,

I was alarmed at how stark his mien was.

the last three words i want to hear

and the children get bored so fast

In The End, The Light

Books begin piling on my nightstand.

Sure

(you could add other isn’ts to the list),

I am my own best friend

I inscribed it I really did to no one

O Is for Ombrifuge

In the car you tell me your reticulate dream

Building Your Animal

you feed it something small, / during transportation or at work,

I Want to Raise You in My Starving Image

Did you want me to cackle.

Teenager

Who will feast on the brainworms

Habit

Go easy on me, nun

The Sphinx

There’s a story about my great-grandmother

White Sands

beyond fraying clotheslines and loose-leafed copse

The Stone

Not without reason did the stone break away—

Staples

The spoon in the bowl / was the glass on the table,

dumb theory

the scenic route / the Pacific object / the industrial heroine

Palisade

Love will be compulsive or not at all

Cheshire Chats

FIG. ( \ / \ / ) (MANTA RAY GUN)

October 26th

I think it’s been raining.

Sinclair

or walking as interactive cartography:

Cheap Legs

“make an end run around darkness,” / someone said.

To Anchor the Swarm, Its

little cousins, little citizens of death / unnamed along these distributions  

Euangelia

The lone mule kicked, murd’rous.

Lyman Street

Merely clumsy, me, / I hit the brakes, I save / a skunk.

My Magic Mountain

You / can have a treatment and / a treat too

American Singer Canary

or for saying, / The cage is roomy but / the rent is too high.

Things We Don't Like That We Don't Like

the image of a person / above all else, whether / handsome or grotesque

Your House Is My House

it was easy to get into.

Come Trust Me

like cross-dressing / or separating green glass / from clear,

A Concentration Problem

who did he call / and who came?

Nights

The cupboard kills the knife. / The knife smothers the cupboard.

Teething Ring

to see All the World in a Box.

What Do You See?

there I am / feeling crowded

From Manning Unbound

against the gravity of down 
and holding fast
in dream to where the wall 
will let me hold fast
to the wall. 

The Dodos of Espionage

For innovations in shame.

Come to the Table

A pink weld envelops

Regional Holiday

As thirst climbs the esophagus, rings a bell in the head.

[Untitled]

The red clay sang to them.

Granulate Compassionate

I would put a flame to a face.

Tamper-Proof

We are determined not to fall behind.

Broad Strokes Educate

Muted trumpets:

Please Check All That Apply

(It tugs at us / To be the ones finding out.)

When Baker Left His Mark

Warrior-kings came through the window / Stained with parables.

The Masonic Frag

The re-creation of yesterday park.

Leather Nostril

Through concords of sexual death / And the avant garde.

Pro Forma

To another crystal, doesn’t much care / For reform.

Better Off

park bench desk the less I disturb, more remain

Now Spring Is Our Release

unloved like dry wall shards, glass and lint

As Repeated Earlier

as fall is an effort of trees

The Admitted Closure

cruel to my own tsar heart

I Would If You Asked Me To

found like a feather on my pillow in the van

Talking Can Be Not Easy

so we didn’t use words in that moment

What We Treat It As

armadillo red ember echo picnic

Forfeiting Gray

fingering the dream catchers

Its Been Along Time

before the Safeway moment / hand on a cold fish, mango in my pants

Perfection Is Not a Question

I wander along the ice cream stand

Black Stygian Lotus

your friends get naked and read your poems

Can We Return

the beginning of the song is therominy

Glass Is a Sand Castle

in this city of challenged passion

Bird Sketches

book apricot

From Paradise Lust Book II: Transferences

Speaker

I put on a smile like snow and snow and snow.

Rivulets

a chipped mirror, a teacup, an arm to grab. / A patch of sky worn thin, gold.

Thirsty and the Night Is Old

the sound of a boat loud with waves / when there's no water near.

Part Five: The Sublime Porte

meditations on death / interrupted by the / empty shampoo bottle

The Underground Sonnets

Just know that somewhere in Atlanta poems are created / And somewhere deep in Georgia poems are destroyed.

Going, Going, Back, Back

I'm good at math. I set the three above the six.

Spare Generators

The junk fleet sank / Into a subway with the possibility of destination,

Line Breaks

that everyone was / really everyone without exception—

The Blessing and the

the useful path to take is / Gratitude for being rendered into / Content.

In Disguise

whatever works / For you.

Fibrillations

without focusing— / glass shells clear / up the opera

Warm Arks

Now, an artist statement,

First and Ten

Where are the Syrians of yesteryear?

Imitation of Peace

The gloom that manufactures / White leaves and red ink littering the crooked axes.