life museum exit

                             

the indelicate theatre of sky
sits on the edge of its seat closing hours,
guarding heaps once lawns where trees
spoke. turn left; go right
names of masks or cases of rare colors,
homes rebuilt, fresh burlap ready to
plant as fruits of war fall.

1991

episode

big yellow strands awaken the island

within the pupil of laurelhurst park,

raven families course the airspace of engineered spuce  

beckoning duck cackle commotion

----lighter stations running older channels watch garbage cones

crosshatch by the bridge an escher picnic table feeds,

somehow, this nation of wants-----------

zero-panting about the ankles itchy from blue skeeters

                                  *

sidewalks start the politicians to magnify

cancer& reduce funds for marijuana

sweet medicine women procreate their own selves,

hatch books to generations choking on acid sleet

-----hypothesis yet a life unto what it dismisses,

goldsuns lash curlique attachments

to satisfy the segmented snoring blur, a thick worm

                                  *

feel the silence complaint mister nader pleads

under belittled constellations,

the pentagon's sunflower or a cheap van gogh

from the wrong year

whooping cough indians hi on robitussin launch a tribe

of antlered turtles into the language potion,

spell scribbles of preservative husbandry

on the arms of lucky charm knaves

                             1992 Portland, Or