SCAMP

SCAMP

the turned out

vein pulses, cosmetic

sanguinity externalized, enfleshed—

trusting an uncaring

god to turn

its gaze away.

CAVERNOUS

CAVERNOUS

unvernal expanse

shuffling amongst

itselves,

plastic wrapped,

annotated, ripped

fluoresced

eight 'our'd

air staling,

stolen,

from that

vaster space.

UNTOWARD

UNTOWARD

drawn out,

in

absence, or sense,

ein Weg,

a foregoing, the

Frolic echoing in

its menacing,

celebratory

way—we slip

out the side door,

must always

choose

to return some

other way.

DER MANN WARD ZUM SIEB

Der Mann ward zum Sieb,

in the particular, leaf rattling,

autumnal chill, deceit settles

to the bare ground, waiting to be

stir-

red up by your comings and go-

ings, fine particles for you to

inhale and filter, becoming, at last,

the machine for forgetting that

god meant you to be—

less tender, as the waiting begins,

for the world to freeze.

JAPERY

JAPERY

countable and uncountable

that moon yap, tooth

paste white, given

over, liver felt—a

feared, that hollow

mock man, taken out

to smile in all

our places.