Put it something beautiful
Or hide it beneath rug.
Did you put it? It wouldn’t go
and wrecked my nails while I tried to scratch it in
Fatly, plump and of precision
The ugly young woman put the cup down
Upon the
Mesa.
She was there.
I was a tableau.
We stretched ourselves into a taught and multicolored fiber
we became glittered and we glowed
of body marks of tender stretches
tenders gestured emptily
in all the emptily gestured
toward what ever was in the frame, caught in the instant
was an eidolon in separation
of haunting
hunting or of an apparition
in between look of her laughter escaping sound of her laughing
Rolled up we tried so hard to leave it behind us it would be left behind us
left behind us caught inside the picture
i was a picture woven into a tableau we wove
Below the rug, unsmiling in the oily, unsmiling in the woven
where nothing there was to be removed.
The faces twist grotesque double chins of hysterical laughter
If you paused your own hideous chuckling for an instant
Probably you would be surprised. Maybe you would cry and claim
“it is not me”
to return whatever it was you spent all of your money on.
Let us return to ourselves and to our homes. Let us plough the dirt of our being with our minds and our fingers and let us all hold all of our hands in a circle let us form an undoing and let us let go, wisely we will be there all becoming.
Back to the garden unclamoring, undemanding, let us all try to climb back out of our clothes for foliage
As if nothing ever happened.
Before the first pear fell.
though hast flayed us with thy blossoms.
We could do anything.
We could crush the wet ripe fruit to make us a juice.
I would make a juice for you
Sometime in the morning.
It would be
A juice
Of a fruit
You would want to drink
You would want to travel down
its honey river
Your silver glint
Your feathered crown
You graceful swan
Your greying feather
You swan lover
Or instead would you stop yourself from out biting wildly
You would never let yourself make such a scene
As a bird on a girl
you would never turn around
You would not be struck
At the intersection
Waiting
Or walk across a minute late
Stuck
In the little death
In the click of an instant
You would be no feathered ghost
You would be no luz
You would not be luz
you would take no luz
You would take no picture,
It could only take
if it could only take a picture
And register voice among the registers
To put in some files to be lost
in one of all the archives whiled away, meaningless or burned,
untranslatable and boring, violent
inherently forgetful of themselves as such.
It would be one of those days
When we burn books to keep warm
And my voice could not be yours.
When the winter goes in like a lamb and out
Like a lion.
Or is never a lion
And is never a lamb.
And is only the weather.