foot stabs a sun dial's soft creaks in the dark

 an ingrown silence coiled in a diary whimpers

 slinking deeper as fish is my soul an ocean?

 

 not believing in dreams a father drops the squid

 beyond my grave a boy of light and milk

 bird feet the night we destroyed the buildings 

 in a dream of potato genetics the strawberry man

 the heron’s heart Van Ruisdael’s brushstroke 

 its song the birch that kills you

 in your dirtbike heart a cow falling

 where the hippos sleep january snow

 independent thought the jellyfish's wishbone

 the king must die three weeks of dragonflies

 perched bird the silence of dna

 w/ the word thursday we fix rain

 the ceiling ab negative 

  

finding audubon’s mystery birds a burdock bulb

 hambone infinity god makes a squid

 in the deep the heart of ice rain is sapphire

 

 the creek's pretence at resoluteness winter drizzle 

 congealed in a puddle discarded skies

 after-rain steam sweating off the weight of blindness

 

 mewling tinnitus a poem once

 

 your nose a shark looking towards saturn 

 sometimes strong giraffe eyes

 stare a condition of the eye that belies the soul’s long rains

 

  

skimming bridge waters a collared cloud

 fault in a tourniquet an inundation

 

 sunk in darkness words long dead in the telling

 

 following instructions we make ears for wasps