Black Kara Nocturnal

glass bunching for fabric

along the cool water beach

all cool water is land and

beseech chew, her highest scream came then

to the occult and slightly hindoo cabinet

its record player capital out of reach

begins on its own

and to accompany

the denouement of the fetish idol

the cabinet's front somehow more mechanical

in wonder as horror

I am an alien to punning

and then its song:

HEY HEY HEY

there is a thin thread taught as a weevil

between hilarity and horror

but the worm prefers all memory

witted

sac and stall

thin disks interrupt

the gleefully rippling

columns

depicting the oracle's

all folding up