W
rite
The tall
Poem .
Focus
The whip !
Scribble
Scribe ;
Scratch
From
The inside .
Peck
The convolutions
[ Cortex
Blanket
Ruffles ] .
Shuffle
The graphite ;
Inkwell
Blacken
The white .
Seahorse
Anchored
In the swells—
SQUALL !
Rampart
In the clouds,
Lightning cracks,
Language
Showers
Down .
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Well, all of me—
For Atlantic white cliffs
And puffy sheep in rain .
Mull on the coastal plain,
The moist air slowly drifts :
Circling from sea .
Look in the glass :
At the dance | she moved on .
Was it the dip or the twirl ?
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X .
Darwin notebooks
Plastic–pink dropped
By
Anonymous .
Why on a score
Age ?
The tree of life
Modeled on the
Page .
Police still probe :
Fan or foe, this
Ex
Freebooter of
Empirical
Sketch ?
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On a gust of wind,
Flamingo Four Ninety–Two ;
Before wing clipping,
Escaped from a Kansas zoo .
Seventeen years of pursuit :
“ Pink Floyd ” in Texas,
Shrimp ’n minnow by the blue—
Free after EXIT .
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— Violet —
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W
rithing snakes purify the white blood that sloshes around
Within the armor, the woodwind heart with back–and–forth stops
Running top a midnight scherzo at three miles per hour .
Folding into quarter crevices in three–quarter sleep,
Blattaria snuggles in moist shadows, shunning the light :
Nocturnal demon that can scissor–scramble on two legs,
And tilt rusted battle shields to lift off like a gargoyle
Against the stars . Lineage from the Carboniferous,
With grappling appendages and well–groomed antenna smell,
That can survive on just thumbprint grease or postage stamp glue,
Chewing sideways . The bicorn bottom feels the slightest draft
Of approach ; two–thousand compound lenses scan all about .
The triangular head holds ancient roots of reflection
Tapped when hydraulic failure upturns six legs heavenward .
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Cognitive revolution :
The chambered self
Scans through the window ; the tribe waxes
Stratified :
Hand spans in red ochre and the spirited quadrupeds ;
Paleolithic flutes chant
In bullroar drone,
Picasso bulls and equine splendor
—communion .
Spastic shadows dance in the limestone jaws acoustical :
The mystical rivers wait,
The cave teeth drip,
The anteroom priest flows through dreamtime
Artistry .
In a mammoth tusk emerges the dawnlight of beauty
Impressed in miniature,
Exquisitely
Streamlined from the bulbous Great Mother .
Animal
Spirits connect the Bushmen to Pithecus savanna,
Patchy with umbrella trees,
The ground clawed tight ;
Pollen escapes grassfire smoke skyward :
Dispersal .
Wrathful sirens wail over waves, the ruins in moonlight :
The Minoan labyrinth
Housing the bull
Under flapping sails | with longitude,
Golden thread
Out of darkness : the taurine jump over the cratered moon .
Bronze–Age warrior culture of
Linear B
Immortalized in Homeric hymn,
Frankincense—
Anointed from stony Arabian navigation—
Geographic destiny,
Bacchanalian
Desert gardens watered by cisterns,
\ oasis / .
Towers look toward heaven, the plazas toward the king :
Architecture constructed
Hierarchical .
Time-capsule art reveals lost cultures
After sand
Buries or jungles strangle the structures quelling nature .
Pyramids and hieroglyphs,
War in the words
Of codices on the mayan steps
Poly–chromed
For Quetzalcoatl to rise over each new kingdom .
Sometimes the artisans
Leave monuments
Bleak, and walk back into the forest,
Ingested
By the bestial wilderness where the sun sets early .
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Occupation : Poet . 