Sonnet
Inside blaze earthly figuration
the lover in pieces at the mouth
of a river the lover in pieces in
the mouth look down a hand
at the dirty bank same bank
different river the logic of love’s
insistent metonymies overhead
the sky measures the burning
fires distance between
dynamic constellation please
extinguish the lover falls under
wide open the sky a mouth
and feasting this broken sweet
unsatisfied substance
Beloved
Call the body husk
weight cleft of breath
nailed earth then sky
time, no time
alive, beautiful, bare
the point at which on the vine
becomes you’ll find her
Waking Vision
Of all the skies that come in protest and say in protest
how far then is this far? If there is a music about proximity relations of sound
which feed upon each other so to refigure it is the music of a solemn
speculation at the window count the fingers on the hand press them then
look—it is not a hand all the skies between what was and is
Late Radiant
Unquiet remains gnarled and petrified the sound
of petrifying is the sound of expansion glass pushing its squares
out and out heaving world
in her wake
Visionary
Fixed and tethered sight a tongue’s wintered eyes
wintering at streets shores the blur of escaping birds
without law he says there can be no transgression
without transgression stillness only we’ll wait
where the lines intersect for someone something to pass
nothing in this world is still he says stand there you’ll see