Combs
Comb the chrysalis from your beard to fasten the milkweed
Rather your eyes be matted with Queen Ann’s lace than pill blisters scatter the sink
We hesitate and falter
Have tried to bathe in a sink instead of the lake
I have not given in completely am not yet preserving only the land
The rest of it or the rest
Which is the false stillness of matter
Hold these atoms for me while I swipe the last dish from the sink
We take bird dishes to the woods and paint them hanging from trees
We will break the pattern sob
The only dangerous beard belongs to the dead
Comb out haphazard need
When we climb
out of the flowerpot our roots are numb for the first six steps
When You Press a Button on My Side, a Tall Door Opens
My youth goes to the matinee on Saturday afternoons
Tactic cards add little to the otherwise clean and elegant game
Take advantage of what looks up with interest and waits
Little figures of prospects dry with too much civility
Fingernails buffed by handguns primp into the carriage window
Design a problem practice can take care of
A barbeque war and heritage mining sessions
Obedience since we entered the gun
You press for a provocative portrayal of remorse
We hope to find the tall door framing a recovery cursed with artwork
Submissive grief noticed by a curtsey
And with no objection the carriage drove off
She Is Humanly Plain
As touch I creep around the wild geese
and take to distance with no such safety roof
There are no guidelines for your unreachable beard
Your cap keeps rolling to my corner tree
and I hold it here though you refuse to retrieve
She is humanly plain and you let her in
She takes to distract with veins growing the wrong way
A subject you could not mention before me
The distance choir and anchors hanging from two chins
I train only to request what can be given
The geese sleep in dried grass below my tree-house
and keep one gosling in your cap