Suffering is allowed.  Synthetically met,
          seen rapid as glass or a painted sea-scene
          of the pure blush.  Like wine on windowsills,
          the ruffled breeze and short-legged dogs go by.
          Below as Flemish.  Made worth who wroth medium.
          Now we march in cool favor of alien winds
          that bring the past in short pollen waves
          across the glimmering floor.  Not a stare
          for stars as these.  You are worshipped
          in someone else's kitchen.  A pentacle
          with flowers of red, pink, or white
          means someone else admires the static
          once in that other room.  This is a paean
          to contractors.  They know where white
          lies, on vacant beaches.  A single
          towel there at afternoon.  Structure
          walks bilaterally.  Off.
           
          Too cool to clap, so they snap.  Know
          what I mean?  Pensive decadents on
          frescoes.  We see them come and go.
          It's not a pretty picture.  Some are tame
          and some are shallow.  Who imagined waking
          up with breasts.  What had been whited-out
          returned to the canvas, she saw upon awakening.
          Crossing the chambers, following the smell
          of coffee.  And a pretty bird dangling fire
          over the polished wood of the dining room
          table.  A complete realization is wings
          or years away.  You know what I mean,
        	but refuse to see the substance of my argument
          because it's what gets underfoot.  Your
          sandals called huaraches.  Hocus-Pocus
          Mayan.  You lie.  And a late moon.  Over
          crystal tents where we lingered.  To go
          into all that again.  Shells of tigered
          purple.  Nautilus.  Inks housing projects.
          You went fluid.  No point is more oppressive
          than yes.  Another bird.
          
          Never you mind.  Composition is belladonna.
          Wheels face indigo sea.  Moist air yields
          presence.  Syllabic children run down there
          but railings partition cerulean in mute verticals.
          Who called him a name of death.  The likelihood
          that rain would alter sham forms, grasses
          that hissed there.  We called a mineral district
          tonal.  A few thousand mental images in an hour,
          then despair.  Returning.  Can we substitute for
          the past?  Xeroxial wanderings and layers of
          superimposition.  Collages, dreams.  Periods.
          The veil loosens and spreads under water.  You
          say it is an argument which counters stone,
          our house, our elbows planted in the sand, akimbo.
          A thing does not attain anything.  Qualities
          simply come off as soaked skins.  The way
          a child's dinosaur unfolds in a glass.
          Pretty refracted color.
          
                               And then there were none.  Limp plural
          we stroked in orange reflector skin.
          Samurai crab-shell and who took out his penis.
          Left in fractals of reality.  They shimmered,
          yes, that much is true, but how can we repeat
          a story which is so disappearing.  It's like
          stars stuck all over your fingertips.  And then
          there were several.  Realty repairs.  Fluorescence.
          Fragments.  Biblical fragrance all through her
          carpeted upstairs.  Where he followed the sound
          of her violin, shadows drenching the stairs,
          awkward muse of grains in the folds of his skin.
          What it means to be nude. Here. Each dry tick
          of the clock in the salon downstairs scratched
          his ideals.  She was rocking an eye in a chair.
          The way it looked, because askew.  And a tiny
          window behind her: a perfect square.  Or so it
          registered.  But who knows.  He wonders why
          live roses.  Over dusky sandalwood.  Then
          it slides open like a drawer.
          Eros.
          
          Botching it what you learn quickest.  This too
          not even a complete turn but a former world
          well-done.  Fantastic representation left to it.
          Up in the air.  Isn't that what they said?  So.
          A fictive insect imago dissected white.  Glitters
          on the kitchen table, salt spilled and rituals
          of superstition throwing bits over a shoulder.
                     
          Or tucking one under your arm to fuck later.  Does
          it hurt?  Varieties of the straight she copied
          in geometric emulation.  Blowing all this off later.
          Maybe there won't be such excess, such waste.
          Isn't that what the glowing white lines across
          the top say to you?  Prodigal tides.  Spume.
          And hair blowing over the frilly edges of her
          calico.  Insect chirr from where water seeped
          into superheated stone.  Imagined crickets.
          Home under stone.  Commas on your tongue
          all that bright day.  Blowing.
          Him.
          
          Dressing volts.  An appreciation of spines she
          left there.  Strewn across the several landings,
          intimate interiors.  A long tongue slashing dark
          there in fearsome humor.  Then the phone rang
          for years.  Are you obliged to mount in top
          positions?  Don't be so honored or else they
          might want you to stay.  Buzz to get inside.
          Leave letters cold outside.  Next to hedges.
          Bird nest there, symbolic.  The knife's edge
          is so common on heavy seas.  Endless periodicity
          we call the bourgeois charm of decor.  Do you
          believe all that?  We crossed deep-bowled hills
          and left our words there.  Echolalia of desire.
          Banged between rocks, boomed cries shaking
          canyons and zippers down.  Birds, foxes
          poised in listening.  Inexplicable cloud forms
          under his brow.  She licked that salt.
          Some passage in a Puritan book.
          She thought this is the ground.
          
          He was standing there holding something.  
          Looked to her like old parchment.  But they were
          snake-skins.  Limp.  Burning.  He smiled.  And
          so she remembers him in leaning grasses and not
          a city near to compare.  Something about scale
          in the picture she retains.  Needs to hang
          on an intimate wall.  Masturbating October.
          Won't get to the milk.  Something about the way
          it cozens you.  Quite an insincere phone call,
          intrusion.  Snouted pushing at her dress hem.  
          Smiling.  Even holding wine glasses missing 
          the bristles.  Just get to the children.  She
          thinks.  Get to the kitchen.  The coffin.  
          Get it over with.  Incomplete penetralia.
          Wings.  Pigments.  Canvases left.
          Turned to aeons.
          
          Hanging notes on his door.  A line to
          a lure or look.  Blazing stare over the lake
          and digital watch dropped into weeds.  Laughing
          at his pissing arc.  Sleepy in places of nature
          you are sure are ancient leaks.  Or a cave where
          the dark invited but you didn't go.  Left a sweater
          there.  How it must have gathered two falls into
          its breast, two winters.  Eaten fibers.  Indian
          ghosts.  Inertia in sweet profiles.  Apple trees.
          Thinking in schemata called vaguely logic.  But
          more like vestiges that glow at the edges.  An egg
          halo in still life.  And sweeping your hair back
          in a gesture of nonchalance.  Those antlers in your
          yard just compost now.  Adjust the moss in its
          pristine vase.  Bonsai words.  Trained to grow
          in contentment.  Void covered with petals.
          Pretty pink ones.
          Dappled the dark.
          
          The bias in place.  Balls against vertebrae.  Kiss.
          We float in a broth.  Mood amplification and legs
          left out in full view of windows.  Neighbors nod.
          Pretty mahogany color of horses that ran there
          in rains along rails.  You driving out.  Leaving
          it.  Ridden to luminescence.  Lugged.  Cutting
          out words from letters.  Planktonic forms of
          shadows over your wings which closed over your
          breasts.  Saying you weren't cheap.  Were invaluable.
          Stroking blossoms, as if they had neurons.  He
          liked to watch.  His cologne behind your knees.
          Why do they use the word "bury?"  It makes it
          sound so mortal.  Sweaty swirling of his tongue
          fizzing under there.  It was muffling voice,
          muting days belled blue this way, over you.
          Impressionist swaying seen through windows.
          Detection meant the person was wholly visible
          behind the law.  Its fissures.  Cracks in the
          domestic edifice.  Which meant they were coming
          apart, coming together.  Unsettling.
          Benumbing.  Scumbling words in crevices
          of eyed void.
          
          Next-door oxidation.  Pinch it.  Go sell.
          All pungent living, nodes of drama.  Cell lit.
          Continue nixing settlements which burn away.
          Left with a fossil of the real?  Outdistance
          other old films.  Watching black and white
          streets with rain.  Where characters settle
          in on velvet cushions.  That's the forties
          for you.  Better bid on paper outcomes.  Letters
          to follow.  Retractions.  The main structure
          (as you can see) is oarless.  Doesn't mean
          it's any less.  Ferns press white patterns
          into stone and somehow it's enough.  Aeons
          when you weren't here with these troubles.
          So you should be setting off.  Face windows.
          Where the light changes to extreme limits
          of gaseous color.  As if it were Jupiter and
          the Great Red Spot a storm from Shakespeare's
          time almost run its course, finally.  So now
          you turn in.  Into the chamber with its white
          woodworking of ceiling.  Interesting shadows.  
          A glove of no consequence.  Eros turned
          inside-out.  Edgeless.
          Inking still.