the house settles around
the crook carved
into the body of the bed
late night story
book is red
Three policemen climb over a fence. I am dead. I am on the ground. I am pretty in a white dress. We live between getting up when someone is at the door, and not getting up when someone is at the door. A bed of sleepy women move like cats. On the other side of the fog, you are naked in a vat. You are a memory of mine being erased. So this is my death, not yours. Someone is at the door.
w e
a d o
l av
l o r e
enter as you leave
after and before
David, I think I love you, and your wife is cool.
I watched your wife on that tv show, and
she wasn’t terrible and that was okay.
David, I wonder if you would love me too?
I know you love your wife, but everyone
says I’m witty and sardonic and a bit “old school”
just like you. I heard you on the radio,
and you said something about oranges,
and I laughed because it was funny, and
my last name is “Orange” and we obviously
have a connection. Call me if you’re ever in The States.
gun
p o
i n t
T R I
AD
what is this emptiness inside?
the national debt?
festival atmosphere drawn through cigarette
disappears into opposite of yet
return a god
bless you or render
theological debate
switchback road
scared straight
communion ignore
cord
joy strike deep
dignity,
sleep
share the occurrence of you
too fragile to hear echo of ideal
against tense glacier
spring flood out stature
sworn
comfortable, and warm