MOSS/
LICHEN
Helium
Griselda lying in a switched radio
sunset Flight
over badlands, over clouds ~ helium Griselda
Shapeshifter
of orange jewelry
setting her platinum body
into the glass cliffs~
Haven’t
touched whales to ceiling in a long continuum,
fluctuating
between clock hands, white clocks and roaming
room,
guitars flying in the sky canceled out ~
Sky
fly by
on
a tricycle
shallow
pool
of voices
I
swim in ~ Motorcycle-paste-to-paper
climb
down
rocks,
all along
snakes nest
1 & 2 & 3,
expect delays & Tea formulas
drip-pressed flower/ stomach / mind
Pink
fight fishing a swim on
a
pants leg in a rage to capture
Madison/
Milwaukee /Chicago
ninety
four
Cleveland/ Erie/
eighty
six times thirteen
Randolph
Further looped
Sounds turkey
That the shooting
Lifted steady crank smoking
Hand
and pulley
these
shoulders
Through
elbow to open the
Bird
cage
Out
the swans and ghosts come, the closet
spins
its wheels, spun when you reach the wheel and the
mechanic
Hand
turns, unlocks ~ a
secret lake
in
the walls of our house ~ where the swans go to
Wander
these slaves, buried beneath the
Pencil
thin orange taste in the furniture inside
of
strawberry
paint, that opens up the broken down house walls
on
a hillside, only at dawn this ~ is witnessed
We’ll meet there
Beneath the
Sample
shelf crossed
bones
in the metal sorry
Meadow and ships rotation
The moss spider wheels back in the sound
Of breath
Oozes flowers from her eyes and mouths
and nostrils
Dripped pumpkin saliva, reflect doorknob
pinstripe
neon
In
the peaceful warm soup of the compost sequel two
sundays:
(of) Sarcasm
centaur
floated in the garden
peopled
with children who play basketball, saw blade season
and
leather painted doors ~
Top
down at the tower of Pizza. Peppermint sunlight
~ and moonlight. A moonstone
horsey
rides
Through the ocean at midnight ` Squid that
rummage
through boxes in my memory hide there in the
fuzed
blue glow ~ A distant morning ship
A keyring nausea takes off clothes, and
lifts up the
bodies from the snake infested terra cloth
this winter hands from a chandelier now~
fly trap
line paper ~ Sinks shannon the roses
in gypsy flowers climbing on the porch
steps ~
The Patient Griselda -- Frank Cadogan Cowper