cloaked in the presence

A LANDSCAPE

Are we issued yet?
Guys named Kurt
Love tweets

gallery tweets
but water is really the Goddess

around every city

is there really a difference

that isn't moving

faster than all this shit?




PENANCE

before I up absurd Enlighten Me
a squirrel got in a space
over the downstairs bathroom

i heard him in terror

of the mortgage

i thought he was inside
because i heard his dance moves

each morning

but you verified no he was outside

then you chased him away

it's October

a homeless squirrel

how can I enter Heaven

while he is reckoning the tall trees

that do not leak heat now?


you are so clearly guilty

of saving me





TO A STRANGER

I told him

no I'm not that person

whose name you don't know

I was just

no not exactly just

but

standing in for someone.





AUTUMN PUT OUT FEELERS


Bisect the Heaven-Sent Leaf

your original trees

show monstrous origami


go lose your teeth


i say to the trees





OLD WOMEN WHO CRAVE SEX


gnarled and nasty

foiled to awful

funny choke holds


loud on the street




OFF HOLLAND


the sea purses

thinned lips







HELLO SQUIRRELS


Hello again squirrels

acorning autumn trees


you suck oak bitter batteries

you pitter patter

through our cemeteries


where you are most relaxed