REQUIEM

the deck is shoveled off
for the tread of bare feet
said bones laid on the rug
in a row made neat
through and through
two of my eyes half closed
so loves lined up
we wind up up wind
simultaneous tangents and obliques
the phases of an circumferential moon
visible one day
invisible under night
yet casting light on every leaf
shines on awake and sleeps
a superposition of states
on soft seats and city streets

what going was going on while you where gone
guess we will never know so long as you are home


Sloopy Cat

a planetary eccentric

lately has been later than hardly
horribly has been harder than warmer
warming up has been blessedly sooner

voodoo child (partial return)

let the french speak french
and let the mexican speak mexican
let loose hendrix to speak the hex again

rare elements

the well has evils
high strontium levels
but all the same say
better radioactive traces
than piping hot lead
and brain dead

beach wood

brown the beach cow
slumbers under frozen sand
evidence lingers on
shit disks that skip and sink

potent notables

the catfish was a farmer
now a fillet not a chamfer
some say happily ever after

bubbles and spits fire
over a green requiem in the corner
by the spic and expansive water

ducks

the lake is awash
with the waves of past flocks
the ducks come to squander feathers
lots of us watch
from shore and boats passing off

units of measure

a box is just a box
unless it has bread
in it in
which case
it is
metrolological
not to be confused with
meteorological
unless falling from the sky
was it

breakfast lunch dinner

cereal is the dinner
that delights
the savant

cereal is the concept
that preference
of food

cereal is the box
that opens
one way

cereal has a package
that punishes
the idiot