woodpeckers cackling by day in the shapes, colors warlike peppers lichens and mosses fleshy flagpoles snails see with limestone a small finger-twitch of the dance no snail is active today in and under sassafras sapling hangs low insects account such as clover the insect sits help from bacteria another Russian doll
and God nose to nose the last home and vain two up two down Parma Violets only four small years
Athens mourned en masse purple, green or black patchy though before Alexander an undying Banyan two distant dots fall like green tears to the ground
summer of 1975 the meaning of it acted as living props long chestnut marble walls ersatz splendor construction destruction wet, toothy whiff of prewar pederasty hardly a sexual exile pink cheeks on river banks grotesque, absurd everywhere and nowhere an outsider from the inside
made everyone eight thousand lira with pink hands God rubbed salt full of wet laundry two souls
round shouldered with his eyes on me over the snow choosing his snow he knew his snow ‘daybreak’ he would say all the dogs were in a mist in repeated slaps round-backed, bare and armless Father Henry has no table knife
a tin cup it was last seen there somewhere unimportant my time living without money first make fire friction bracken and birch bark strictly wild
on roasted flesh another little nun as swift he cannot weep each barmaid too bound in black and red busier than he was never wanting in his house white as morning milk of moist or dry any arrow, short knife the Queen and Emily all in good time n love-watching, intent
with seven on her hands had hardened him the actual view the delicious ecstasy of recollection expanse of olive bosom should take The Times Pop could Pop knew better undernourished leather look
down the cobbled streets like fur once gaudy like a ferret’s cage generally the crumbs from breakfast brave the marmalade jar heat, noise clouds of coal dust half-naked kneeling man do not change your linen a frill of shepherds and pigmen tea out of the same snuff tin sticks by you to(…)
