They’re all dead anyway, and it’s a long time
since that neighbor blood was wiped up

                                    And then a cry
floats to her from out of the night somewhere,
rising cold in the glassed-out shining wind

He has made things with his hands.
He knows how to get along with other boys.
He has experienced parliamentary procedure.

At this moment I am wearing what you bought me:
bikini underpants with that striped beast
sewn onto the front, whereof the quilted silk

1. I perceived myself falling in love
in bits and pieces in black and white.
On page 20 she wore a floral robe

Today’s lesson: a black river
which began in the northeast corner
of Utah struggled downward

Born of a sharpness, and set to music.

Glorious things of thee are spoken!
There should be a word for you

Knowing indifference is earth’s
common constituent, I can take comfort

Dusting under nuptial covers,
the virgin working for the matron
wondered what love had been. A light