20 May
12
as the music sounds
in the common tiergarten
he sways from side to side
on a red plush base
promiscuous tides
peaked too early
for an insufficient calm
mingling liquors
distant planetary bodies
disturb the cleansed surfaces
entries in the gazetteer
waiting to pass away
13
slyness complicates
naive histories
as if to say
how little avails
terror before aloof
vermin in its place
the gulf is washed clean
by submerged waters
fixated on breathing
in happier times
to perplex the more
forensically useful beetles
14
diminished vehicles
along crimson routes
a curious high-pitched
air of foreboding
in the absence of better information
everyone scattered
wheeling and minding
the expelled arrived
into a fallen world
limp from recent weather
prepared to sleep
to keep it from rusting
15
a featureless cast
from the act of touching
intensifies memories
taken at the flood
a knife or a bottle
with a singing tone
action recorded in tissue
in gentle households
a sudden extreme cold
as when one bites an apple
marking several thousand-fold
the dangers of surrender
16
seized by vertigo
structures that control
habit patches broken rooms
with foregone conclusions
while taxons migrate across
the element of surprise
intrepid as he was
boredom was the victor
the habit of precision
misapplied in sleep
returned as surgical insults
hedged by glass
21 May
17
simple duration
of banal occurrences
there is no end of talk
the water finds its level
your breath is in your face
though evidence accrues
this girl is young
markets are nervous
hands reach
out of effect back into cause
so many dead
it was not so