e u s t a c i e s

too much talk about others tries me
I want to go home to ideas
wonder where rose quartz slides into Kansas
or record basalt and river stone Wisconsin
stop at flint Denmark
volcanic Japan
gossip is grit
no grit! I was warned
by Royston Tester to court peace
and keep it close
maybe even cold in various rivers
milwaukee
schuylkill
onda
(or streams - Linved, Darby, Ten Mile)
so now
gritless
awake at 5 in the morning
I'll at last
drop into the map
of
p o e t r y
(seasonal foundations of)
 m u s e s
(fugues, last quartets, song cycles)
owls
foxes and
(because it's autumn in america)
opossums.