Chlorophyll and a mucus trail
The uses of pleasure in various epochs
Serial cataloging in an unseen node
Frayed fabric insulation
No oceans but mere puddles of obsidian

When they come for me I will deny everything
The words they use are contaminated with coercion
I am complicit when I use those words
It’s like entering a freeway
Bumper to bumper at supersonic speed

Ask not whither is fled the visionary gleam
The pebbles in the long driveway
The peacock’s cry
Memories of frayed memories
Unrecognizably distorted

How the waves feel
Feeling the waves later
While trying to sleep
The lunar pull of ancient childhood
Jacob’s ladder lightning to children explained

Get off my back
You blatant stooge
They like to see you in a humble troll
Theremin’s cry peacock’s cry
Humid parcels a god might covet

No gas range after that sleeve incident
Call for the erector set
The mollusk’s complicated track
Fat foam protein foam
Ineluctable modality of the criminal

The powerful lure of effrent
The unspeakable language
The intricate surface
The ominously simple depths
Making the walls fall down

God-damned Pilchard
God damn
Never the
Never the same
I will conceal myself when

Soft music
Velvet in pastel
The snail’s horn
The conched ear
The yielding flexible carapace

They come for me
Will Lady Moon protect me
A leaf serrated like a cheap blade
The curling fingers of the wave
Hidden figure catalog denouement

Collect your desiccated berries
The heroic monument vanishing after a day
Never the same
The fragile walls
The fragile intemperate tower