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

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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

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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