Declares time a Lazarus
forlorn over sky
oceanic and nigh.
Woof wanton and fly.
Do you till you die.
Puzzles busted
into sordid pieces
gushing flushing
touching rope.
Garde à l’eau —
watch out below.
Everything rattles
from fingers and tips
every tremor battles
the dustheap and grift.
Every skim and scorn adorns
the drop and pop
the caliginous push broom
that polishes her off.
Mystery’s fevers
adoring over every edge
for a raised
ledge to orbit the fire
the thirsty this dirty.
Taunt haunt
wad and wordy
and holds up the fence
and pulls up the wire.
Coil for oil
that lit the dark
and made me bark
a running shell
from hope to hell.
The appetite
compunctions unctuous
endless rocketing wends
the torrid and the morbid
courting the heavens
every one of them.
Affinity sits on the worm.
Flows and blows
through mysterious chokeholds
where burns white
the seven die, and the heroic foot.
Flashes to ashes
repeating boronic
lovely stashes
block and standpipe.
Fractions of febrifuge
written in blood
madness by its conditions
by its additions
ancient billowing — shirt.
Saddled with lips
pictures of horror.
All and none
the ocean burst
pins a heart
to every nurse.
And digs for gold
in pockets of dead.
And parks and holds
e’er cuts unfold
sugar and lead.