102.
If it said anything it said blue
I walk with you around the ancient
hill to water
am all air and leave it to you to be
fire
there are people such that being with
them all elements complete
that’s why I run out of breath
ascending
the air I needed left behind with
earth
I make noises as I arise they are
words
you hear these sounds as touch
for every singular is plural I am the
frantic chorus
heavy hoofed uphill clamber reach the
top
your house in the sky I trumpet my
residence
you knew right then we’ve always been
together.
103.
I am no meaner than the mind next
door
the swan on the hood of a Packard
tells the time
long kinship with owls for crying out
loud
a ghost train rushes past the slaves
are freed
from one master into the clutches of
many
the salary of circumstance please
tell me what to do
I want to talk about the moist
details
the lug nuts down below the arm-break
crank
slowly unpack all the details blue
glass seltzer bottle
call it vichy in Dubrow’s early
edition of the Times
I don’t think the subway ends here
but I’ve never gone beyond
it’s hard to stop being credulous
about the real.
