Only glorious, privately
(a sequence involving no particular problem)
a cloudburst a footnote shone
red to warn
until it said "you might not need to
only privately, glorious
*
waiting for
"the person you used to be"
aloud
the leap to milky moon
*
when I say "certain schemes
to improve the human condition
have failed" I quote those hills
my guide my scout
passable because they roll
along every one's shape regardless of the
disregard for metis
*
"gliss" short for glissando you said
teaching summer how to reach us
*
now we know how to doubt
on round tabletops
under veils that hold even
me evenly
(highlighted a little too much
so loosening its weight)
*
she suggested that thought-leavened margins
would rise from the warmth of your thumbs
(the difference between know and wise)
*
(more often than not we
listen but forget how
we soothe)
*
finally so off course
is the wrong book jacket
I keep that wild mistake close
only glorious, privately embossed
form
scraped off
(return to the origins of palimpsest)
*
church chords bring well-worn canyons
all for which we're thankful
a million nails, infiltrating, privately
though not only inside
my rib cage
was the Gothic uprising
our times require
*
(let me ask you to open up
what you have used for so long:
words
come along, so
cup them privately
as paths
knead the fright out of understand)
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