several poems

THE PRE-RAPHAELITE MOMENT


A monument or an idea

the taxi-driver is okay


poet in the city says



I think with the obvious
thickening of culture



tongues splinter


exactly as angels or Rossettim do

*

A DISPLACEMENT


sympathies will gather as gazelles
near water of that sort


the urban monolith


grief the noble chimera
upset the furniture
which upset me


darling, falling


the Muse of carpal tunnel
humor came with her balm


of pain


trumped my mere skeletal foot


*


SHORE LINE


something back of my throat


singing or talking



are you really, Dear Musuem,


worried about that Twombly phone cord


got tangled up





aeons and aeons ago




Roman effusoria

*



an ocean gathers Tyre


barefoot girls gather at the edge pigments


the shells, cochlear

*


FOR A SHELL



feign the dream of sound



a sleep may border this

inelegance


necessary as iodine


*


SPREADING



I wanted to dispell placement

spooky: Shakespeare spreads as coral



on such summer nights...



an elfin democracy?




look at the Moon



Ludicrous poem triumphant!

*


CEMBALO NOT PIANO




But the ancient trees freed me



serried as they were along the human


lanes where greeting renews itself





at last






no tarnish of emphasis