Tuesday, November 17, 2009

geese nonlinear



speaking in stereo the water and sky
fulfilled the landscape with snow

vanquishing the terrain with softened distinctions,
serving to accentuate other features, the dalles mountain,

hill curves the threshold of eternity
socks worn all the time

eat chocolate& stare out windows
because we dwell in no end of luxury

play in the snow with gaspowered toys, boards
lashed to torsos, geese nonlinear

travel east waving, in tandem of riverfront trail
where kids go googling googling google-link

building facilities
dump trucks shuttle soil& rock at a superpace

their metal shed palace nears completion
as coots float the columbia and wind blows

first season's ice ain't too bad this season
we probe the sandy beach

see a barge cruise by tug-pushed, working
being of use

the snow isn't sticking
yet later the layers are transcendent as ocean all enduring

side by side
within reach

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

fission for monsters

the monster is neon tetra and noun appreciative
as to advances of slash edit redact
upon heap where limbs burn as they should with subsidized diesel
from noggin' casings too fraught with freight,
finger placings somehow always late on fretted brows
making jazzy out of temperamental pain
-tings that kid'n gardeners call art
spelling the seeds with hexes, making secession suck cesspool
not because ore wants to be gone
but because the filling station is never serf serve
round here the monster is square
looking you in both ayes, your conditional and overly mouthed assent
that rulers take the measure of how to angle their castings
so that theater not be stymied by worm riots
under expensive poultices on insubstantial solstices where lots of blood
always was spilled on formica
to cover the reflection's power to turn one to stone
no one will read the tooth
no two may lie under lain paths without a leash on life that wraps the cosmos
about the balls with dialectic precision
enhanced with monstrous marketing making seemly virtues palatable
for the fangfaced denizens and their burpy cuspids with arrows
prowling for jarhackers and carmackers and tarpackers, leaving
the crosses of home in the guttural safety of sheafdom
where cowardice rolls no dice for flee
up the heel a flock of geesebump
s hamstring Achilles and turn hamlet to liquid quitter
frozen in tracks of tourment
a thousand darts with suckercups on the fake fur forehead
a joke in the headlights with punchlines over the collared nape
a monster less ready to eat
than to poke with a teen foot pole that is melting the polar swears habitat
bye bye making swimmers of the fiercest as a yard of ice
looks good when hunted by bad dreams
in the full moon shuttering of eyelids
too indebted to ply evermore