Ohio must be a warning away
here the pinewinds fall on me

sprinkle serpent’s teeth
like co2 stealing your sleep



bedding the vanished face

do you return often?—to the face of things?


around skin stroked in a thousand places
dry like leaves on a lost path

to know the disposition

of
each of those rooms

their closed humidity

a lampshade leaning & casting
a shadow like a neck tilted ridged shoulder blade

it is necessary to "complete this gesture"

to go back to

- everything that has failed to acquit itself

tabloid sentiments at raptures breaking end

a collection of sounds or marks on paper
that communicate by other means...............