Barometric
6 Jigsaw
8 Jealous
9 Vertical
10 Quarry
11 This house
12 Milk
13 Slap
14 Wormhole
1 Rapture
4 Ring
5 Hive
6 Bind
10 Almanac
11 Husband
12 driveway
14 Eulalia
15 Quarry
16 Little fugue
17 Dear columbine, dear engine
18 Dead things
19 What sound
20 Mouth
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Harder
If you’re going to storm,
I said, do it harder.
Pummel nests from limbs
and drown the furred things
in their dens. Swell creek
to flood, unhome the fish.
Everything’s gone too cozy.
Winnow, flush. Let’s see
what’s got the will.
Let’s watch what’s tender
choke or breathe. Try
to make a mark on me.
Beast
Tadpole with legs.
Hawk with a long tail
that is a snake
dangling from its beak.
The apple limb
grafted to the plum tree,
blue Mustang
with the dull white hood,
Ken with the head of Barbie.
The boy with a new plump fist
of heart or kidney
or some shining pins or discs
or a thick, imperative tube
fastening a mechanism
of breath. What’s wrong
with me is you.
blessings
may
