Ache 30

30

[fragmentation of the will.]

Connivance on the method of a swan.

The taut required / time
of someone summer solstice
solace and light / and it is

[shadow brilliant over twilight / down].

Equilibrates the low

throat
trumpeting / that rasps.

Ache 29

29

temple too
the pile of stone is too much

ambergris phillipic ancient
wings of marble

this is question / answer.

/ /

I was spools of tin,
an anxious cutting wire.

White hot resin / this
insanity of finish

incandescent as prolonged desire.

Ache 28

28

pincushion laver
it. All is vanity

/ the hand outstretched is flayed.

A moth spread-wing / bursts
fluttering at stake

into the liquid
heresy of flame.

/ /

How I must after all lose
gloriously.

Ache 27

27

how the melancholic
scriveners drag.
Foot of the hand across vellum.

/ /

Who and how / would weep
lamp black.
The illuminated

fury, weakness.

Ache 26

26

glory beholden

the stars like crumpled
programs through a sewer
grate.

So wish / loser / on that first smudge /

a thread unravels.
The sleeve pulls off.

In front of the orchestra
pit flailing

/ silk shirt / I imagine a white flag.

/ /

While music pushes
past all hope of surrender.

Ache 25

25

image and resistance.

I will not be fit
into the paw print pell-mell
honey fruit mellifluous.
The poison dart,
the arc of spit.

/ /

That it is only natural
in combination. States communal to decay.

Imagine "place" disordered
/ time as time only, without coercion.

/ /

Shivers nude,
the skin alive with welts.

Ache 24

24

the words slipped / comfortably / a rifle
stock into my hand.

O I was broken I awoke

the symbol / then a clarinet
note squealed

/ /

A hairline fracture

& the skull blown like a reed.