17.
Amaze me then you paladins
toaster oven of the alchemists
a microwave is just a little moon
rising and falling in the Brookline
kitchens
where anxious matrons test their
kids’ IQ
just write down what they tell you
and all will be well
Mercutio falls the stage fills up
with eels
close the book and answer the phone
false no friend would ever call so
early
I have no phone I have just my voice
aged animal growling at the moon
start howling or the door will close.
18.
Because a stone on the road is a fish
that stopped swimming
pick it up and pocket it you’ll bring
the ocean home
children are waiting for Christmas
every day
double-boiler full of eggs the
Virgin’s Bath
have you ever heard the cry of milk
the sob of bread baking in the oven
machinery is your friend machines are
gods
because the world is little you are
big
there are no strangers on this kind
of island
the wind reads the papers for you
the hawk dries his feathers in your
special tree
for lo the storm is ended the
boy-girl wind went north.
