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
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.
________________________
-n
… 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.
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.
5/14
nickl.pii - second hymnsed
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.
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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Return to
Tree?
N
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Today I will lie down yesterday any way I want to and sift through the leavings.
np five-twelve
My art
Is merely to defy the Nothing.
To crumple the pieces of the southern sphinxes into a single idea and hurl it away from the Nothing and say, THERE, now fetch!
N..P
The sun has now set on this, the tenth-after-May Day.
N.P.
The Tenth After May-Day
