Vital D

mind foggy
steer here
where there
is
light

every
day
an
English
of
patience

forgiveness

solubility

and
pure
Vital
Doggedness.

emancipation

as she thinks,
so she is free

what is in
cannot be, cannot
but does
is not
but is

a rose from a dry garden
a rose with a single full blown blossom

a dead lamb
dead
meat for the dogs

a camel to be slaughtered
or milked

the neck of a chicken
a broken river

we are not long for here

everything
is a trial of
probability

someone will stop
the wheel

leave you

with everything.

a short north on the way to arabia

dumas fils
1802
a mauve sunlight
washes away
a nation

chaucer lost
merciles
beaute

beowulf
your
tollund man
was
seamus heaney's
epiphany

all northern magi

from this land of fragrant bark
i an oasis
of unclear but also water

two lands, tollund
two shams, dumas and sun, son
and you geat, gael
sail with me
here
slightly north
of
frankincense

28 june

thunder
storm
cloud

miss daisy drives me
to the bus

last night
an animal screams and screams
death

today
so hot
you stick to yourself

remarkable sky

do i look anymore?

hear god's silence

taste salt

long drive

through stunted cornfields

dry planted copses

abandoned hotels

empty amusement parks


corpses are seeds.

under earth, it's raining

and over michigan.

long june, north

yellow
box

branches

dusty
miller

blues

last
days
last
days