Return to Tree

during toast and tea

In a pail,
In pools bent,
And it helps
That my clothes leak,
And it go,
And it there,
When a green grass
Clothes me —
(Nothing ascent)
Just then,
Hereafter
At play
At a space
Pool island
And how
(Howl,owl,owl,owl)
Howl,owl,owl,owl
It’s a day for listening
And a spot to erase
And a trial just-ended,
And a trial descended
And a trial just ended,
And a ride descended
And a child just-ended,
And a child descended


Book of Moons, Book of Treasure-Spills

Glorious glare after doomed morning, after over-afternoonish nap-snoozes, daymare bare-back galloping with you hidden in plain sight, and then these many present pastels. Here now, following the soot-black gift, following the saturated wall, stirred-through in the mix, and walking an eventual, ambiguous brown path. Could living brushstroke proceed streaking-amethyst, stalactite-balanced, will it sleep finally in some ruinous moon-cavern? To flake-flicker with that swoosh of wind which watches lint fly in its wake-ing moments, lunar-somber, golden; spiraling into divers’a-treasure chest, to be born out of moondiver’s blackbox, streamed-up in a flare from the Glowing Stick, Aware-Again, A Fruit-Body-From-the-Light-Side, This Time.

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-n


Prelude to The Book of Rainbows

… Returned to Tree, with a life bent with the light let-in. We followed the cattle to the sitting-place, where all about the moon we sang hymn-locksed. Saying yes, return us to the morning.


Crater-Stomper of Laughing Birthday’s Gift

Someone sleeps
with
an Earthshape!
With a hand
-clasped,
Still-Born
-Birthday-FIRE
Someone’s fucking!
Happy-Birthday!
Hallelujah!
…On this
Earth-side,
It’s
a Rain Day!

Someone’s
.. key-stuck!
With
the-doorknob,
Birthday-Broken,
..Flailing
Earth
-day spite!

Someone’s
First-Aid
…Lost their
bladder,
Both went
.. reeeling!
…Scattered
Birds-
… –and
-bile!

After-bravely
… boring
-Birth-math,
..went an ancient,
Giant-
Voyage-Laugh!
Hey
yer NOT a
… GUEST
Just a taste
-test
Of some last-GUESS,
Yer what’s
sweet-LEFT
…Bashful-birthday
Child!
You’re
…the tester,
The BEHAVIOR,
Throwing craters,
…Flying Earth-
sleighs!

When a
JABS-when,
With
a tail-WIND,
With-a SIR-face,
Fusses
UP-graced,
Bending
 flowers,
Grumbles, shoe
 -laced,
Well, play
Wednes-day’s
Birthday
-BASTARD!
And I’ll be
 WAY-high’s
Floating
UP-STAY!

Dogs ABOVE
 me,
…I’m
 just trying!
Just
 a-shake-ing!
Chewing
 sig-nals,
Dig-ging
. . holy names
Swearing soft
-ly,
Singing
birth-marks,
Backward
-gifting,
.. glaring
…holy
-FACED!
Hay-day
-BREEZER,
With a hope
-sway,
With a belt-ed
…Holy-fucking-
that’s-amazing,
Singing-Birthday-Child!
Cheating board
-games,
 …Singing
 birth-shame,
Singing ‘God is Good,’
Singing ‘God is Grey.’

N.P.
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There was a convalescent
bounding of two rainbows
that trickled down your nose,
and the pasture’s green
in yr eyelash-steam,
and the golden gate
just never shakes,
no matter how high, or where,
the circus blows.


We Hymns-Hymn-Hymnsed Waters-Pout (What-Gardens Meant Two-Lipsed)

And you tasted

tuckered-in

And you tasted …

life-boiled-downed

And you tasted …

rattle-flared

And you tasted …

double-dared

And you tasted …

penitent-staired

And you tasted …

in-body,-in-earth-whirred

And you tasted,

(regarding-howsed)

And you tasted …

guarrdienned

And you tasted …

blurrted-out

And you tasted …

(waters-pout)

And you tasted …

what-gravitied

And you tasted …

slipper-wreathed

And you tasted …

battle-scarved

And you tasted …

swan-dived

And you tasted …

flickered-off

And you tasted …

owed-so—sofft

And you tasted …

what-gardens-meant

And you tasted …

rose-sir-eed

And you tasted …

arose,-a-leaved

And you tasted …

like-honey,-breezed

And you tasted …

or,… well-ed

And you tasted …

broken-shelved

And you tasted …

when what two-lipsed

And you tasted …

(spider-stitched)

And you tasted …

shades-gone-drawn

And you tasted

(unempty-boxed)

And you tasted,

hymn-locksed

And you tasted …

(didn’t-try’d)

And you tasted …

time—can—fly-ed

And you tasted

gods-are-nighed

And you tasted …

tuckered-in

And you tasted,

hymns,-hymn-hymnsed

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