seconding speech

reveries still wet with soft shoe behind
tease of a carbon footprint bound geisha
small. grain science helps however large
we think or maybe ring the conflagration
steward. held back tears as a curtain call
beckons: lost wax in the new suit. i can’t
ponder with fidelity & yet feelings trigger
flock loyalty: constant return to the fallen.

our confected blood lust begs that falsetto
true to time & place: elder story of hanged
pilgrims or the well-hung argument: limbic
reward for fruitful aggression. fast-forward
to a repast of quinces or stiffly named lack
or smiling banquet baked into the system.

florence syndrome

in the disfigured film up swims a face.
reverberant brunt: traces in the last of
de kooning. his eyes burn behind burnt
as if beauty is frank o’hara: gone. can’t
hear him mutter past a slit he makes of
mouthing: translation not sound. glare
then framed by white & white & white:
disrupted in the springs not abstracted.

somnolent fog: latter galleries drifting:
untitled. untitled. untitled. no title. none
signed: taffetas opened by other hands.
winsome celluloid squirms: non-action.
the camera nth dithering: here & away:
now & not. curt castaway clap. blackout.