1. it’s third winter
not so unusual
despite
our failing memory
2. are we a mystery
or a confusion?
3. let them know the weight of you
(i
miss the weight of you)
4. the days go by
tickticktock
and still all this
desire
5. (shhhh…)
6. do you bear good fruit?
i want to bear good fruit.
and multiply.
7. the tongue is a useful thing.
some more than others.
8. let us make raids on the articulate.
choose which sounds
require more attention.
all
the -ings.
9. I HATE WALLS
I LOVE WELLS
I
HAVE/ WILL
10. what
things do you only do at night?
why or why not?
11. “with
my body
i
thee worship”
12. wrangling
words
is
dangerous work
13. have
i
told you
how much
i love you
poetry?
14. can
poetry
be a form
of justice?
let us demand
the right use
of
language
15. shhhh…
16. i’m
not the same man
i was before.
truly. i have
witnesses.
17. I
estimate I have owned twenty thousand books over my lifetime.
I probably have four thousand books in my basement right now.
I
burned several thousand books in a bonfire one night in a park.
18. I’d
say at least 40.
19. (What’s
the story?)
Because there’s always a reason.
The pathways grow slowly, then
wildly or manicured.
Like gardens. Or myths.
20. See
with what
Large letters
I have written to you
With
my own hand!
21. (are)
all poems are about loss?
22. (are)
all poems are an essay on longing?
23. (are)
all poems are a seduction?
24. shhhh…
25. it’s
a delicate surgery,
this picking at words:
finding the fragments;
binding them up.
a gift. or a weapon.
26. poetry
gives you wings?
but you get to choose?
whether to fly?
and
how high?
27. The
endings of things
are very important.
Because
seeds.
28. i
made this for you
29. are
we a mystery
or a confusion?
30. maybe
the Last Supper
was the first supper.
