punctures in the throne room

so many glad to seem
going off to Nepal or
elsewhere, a matter of fighting
on or about. The buttress of
warp speed, more milked than
daily plasma down
on the ranch. And people squander
within ranks. Care for this time
about the hedge and into some
collapse of garden theory
featuring new poets inside
drunk as can be
drubbing. Who's for
after the president
instant? That farming
technique called
privilege, that down among the
poor and falling: there where
emphatically takes a calling,
and we all
resolutely wish
our shoes.

1st Undertow:
\\ nestled among the directives //
2nd Undertow:
\\ lords and ladies of brink //
3rd undertow:
\\ the cackle as after a dreaded boon//
4th undertow:
\\ the caricature within the neighbourhood striking //

and such as after fiction into real nervy seminal,
putzy affixing of stamps to letters and packages,
swarm featured as intent, the political gambling
sounds...

I'm with roister, said garden variety, vigilant. And what's the right amount of bombing for Afghanistan? I have my thoughts. (battle plan mottled on the can of tomatoes, designating some after effect worth viewing). Replied the argument, but the many measures! And garden variety can easily respond with whichever and whoever, all along the riverfront: I am the instant of the detail, human to the point where nothing surrounds anything. The argument had no city, town or village with which to answer that. Calling all this a country, a nation, even so...

and such is lift off, participles into space without a perfect explanation. Is this the best poetry, finally? Is finally the best poetry? Low points abound in the highest spheres, reversals are confused, case managers coordinate everything. All needs are certified, aplomb, the basics of asking for help.

Document Day

July 18, 2005
1st day, magical rival
brings super program
into reach—no loss
of words for me.
Many wait. I hit
my stride. Somehow
patterns emerge

July 19, 2005
2nd day, marriage
of Isis and Osiris
the wind is heat
in a room
of cool function
(and other words
in the forum of
war songs
into the ditches
of immediate
fancy
the new poems

July 20, 2005
3rd day not organized
not sacred not home
quite but a house
or an instance
when you can be
reminded

doors opened to
sunlight or difference
and the day
brakes upon the
rocks—this
much is
speed, the rent
is patent for
light expressed
as swimming

July 21, 2005
4th day
trying all the
trouble—shortages
fall into categories

we count on
the slow mood
of coming music
and a light
in the parlour
when we return

4th day undergoes
definition, or tells
of something
ugly as a fish

meanwhile is empty

we wait
stunned by courses
the toddler is surprised
worrier comes
to a moment

7/22/05
fifth day
includes
elements
of chance
the spoils
of listening
or archaic
results in
the garden
of excellent
reminders

or
going on
with a
trim dedication
including a
poem as
walking
wily on

work intent
this mystique
of timely
accumulation
and power of
numerals
latticed with
severity
and meaning

which day
will follow
the next?

7/23/05
6th day
presents novel
so much sun
you can go
or shadow as
pain or being
on time

whatever

your choices
are heaving things
patents and boats
as well
and the insects
out into the
time taken
(being taken)

so much
depends on
so much
but also
so much depends
on so little

how wild
can you seriously
grow?

7/25/05
8th day
days and days go
by, like alphabets
or swans
the air is
rich again
but loss
still extreme
those baroque sounds
of tinny strings
rises out of flutes
and keyboard granite
and the heat
can only be
avoided in
spinning dalliance

the rains shall
someday invest

July, 29, 2005
another latter day,
later than jet engines
becoming further distance,
or establishment
of particulars, namely:

liquid silhouette,
versatile floor,
modest bracken,
turning colour,
victimized time,
generational cloud,
spoken leaf,
verbal sky,

and
such matter, added
up and bounded
by and forever
complete reunion
(time being
one way
after all)

the season
spells it hurry
in fitted parsecs
and grand segues
such as 1st
resumes the march
and 2nd becomes
a boxed flower:
details fall
forever
the tool of

faculty blame,
learned spate,
directed tree,
searched howl,
flighty rock,
spun effort
and the rolling
under all
deliveries (refined
or caring)
and the sunshine
of the greenest day
perpetuates the
mass and rightness
of where we
are
all of the
day in hand