1.
Sex ship
four-pronged
fuschia
shibboleth
like
a clock of need
transportive
the
litter of the stars’
spit
drips
on
the landing
pad
take
me there
with you
2.
Kapow
for the heart tree
the
green falls
like
a man
like
a poison
dart frog in
the
war
of
its shadow—
a sheaf of nasty
A’s
3.
Shivering candelabra
sweats
a balm
a rude candy
sconce
a saw of sugar
rips
the plain
evening
what
has burned
roughed up
by
puckering ice
4.
The palm shields
this
firey nakedness
like a government
a
cup with a point
the salt of dry lips
history
&
honesty
the
tongue taste
of
a knife
edge
5.
Uncertain
staff
the night of
a
slept-through
day
the
backwards
figure
bows or strikes
6.
A
mothering
lollipop
fans
the
humped-up
beads
it sits in the belly
gesso
a
thousand years
7.
An
idea
a
scoriation
the sitting Buddha
sells
you
carbohydrates
8.
A tree of explosions
all
the white
destiny
the
fruit in quadrants
like
a land
war propped up
on
the mace
of a rocket
certain
feet
a crown of morning
stars
9.
Two
fates
like
a parliament
what it shades
what
it buries
the
middle
is
a funny wand
10.
The
terror
of
the mother
seed
a sailor’s star
coming
on
unidentified
a pinwheel
like
a god
that god
who
forgets you
as sure as it moves on
a
tired trooper
in the square for dancing
