Reference Guide

esther

when asked when
about
.....these martial cultures/

smell of perfume
.....these heavy timbers/

stacked where
when if regal the structural
nacre grown on trees
beneathe the floor

commodus, my friend
how are you my friend

each combination of ivy, nozzle,
orgy, the

illuminated bannisters
deep utterance of lantern fish insides
the whole chambre

an innocence undecided
of innocence

scene unravelling toward totality
finality

the plumed finials
the gaskets in their rotator cuffs
the suspension
den

its wayward aftershocks
like boats hung with tassles
o'erseering the market's mulibelein
and horch

whole and total unity
moving through the canals
winding ungendered balcony and patio
proliferating green handed
out beyond the animal experiment's
unmoved countenancing

the palsied humours
washed by eager epibolic candy

old cannibal soil
sweet computation

here in this vest
sits a gem and jambone
of vulture

a crude tectonic flow-chart
unpossibly remained

i look into you
and try for the eye made eye
instead of what horde echoes
their marching

duty

i was carved and oaken
attended
and caressed

i was washed
and milked
and set out in dappled valleys
uncracked
and witnessed by pulsing chests

all this cool fire of flowers
in her wrists
all this salt and virus
in his knees

now i see

why

the king must pull
a thorny rope
through his scrotum

because the scream of being
is not contained in words
but in the mute

and terrifying agony of skin

skin
older than suns

eyes or ears
a thing laid out in modulus

all destiny is probable network
firework

crowing reefs

like toroids of hungry arms
temples furred in screaming horse heads

ferns

if all of time
is a head
then let its body

be a fern