IN A COFFIN

ignorant

of africa

sunfall's

illuminating

violin music

kids bring

tortillas of light

pigs and frogs

drink milk

SKYDIVING AND RUSCHA

15,000 feet

gunpowder on paper

the flat space of words

explode for $119 a jump

you can predict when the tides come in

but what they bring and take is of their own

santa creature

by the boardwalk

wharf kids stumble

the middle name, "seth," papa red fated

and all its Homeboy [1991 Random House]

nepotistic tenderloin connections

of fried chicken and laughs

and what janis joplin

left behind

between the bed and

wall/

JELLYFISH AND VINEGAR

lightning

breaks the bone

Puck

is on the throne

duck egg / skin anchor

ball and alcoholic chain

(submissive cucumber)

the weight of defeat

[on the perimeter of Times Square squared]

she took a Polaroid picture

and placed it on her pillowcase

next to her head in bed, whispering

a mantra

of multiplication tables

product:

prayers answered

DIAMOND AND SNEAKERS

absence of anaphora

calling you long distance

as we walk together

organic secret:

whisper to a hole in tree

cover it up with mud and leaves

a throat of hair and blood

a faucet of tragedy

chocolate psalm

goat song

New England blue

Rolling Rock and Schweppes ginger ale

a funeral in Gloucester

barnacle barnacl barnac barna barn bar

prism

prison

amber

answer

HOP, SNICKERS BAR AND SEX

stimuli shiver / dog drivel

add zero / ad infintium

[Jones Street]

shopping cart basecamp

street soldiers trooping pavement

not able to get back to Detroit Rock City

tricks are better in a john's house

hotel rooms loom with bad moons

outfit

bottlecap

blacktop

= the impenetrable stare

moaning rugburns marvel

THE LILIES

of the window

are rubbed in the

accident of the dishes

the repeating

flies of the wind

the paper birdsong

and the lilies

have been calling

with

burrowing night

by the tree and blanket

while the cold undressed

dishes of supper

are being flown

by wings of stone

folded lilies

the tug of thistles