Posh Lexicon

—for Coco

posh
lexicon
a woven mesh
lives all over me
sent perishing
to attire
penury mines
where i keep
to my shivers
suspect of
what says
i love
you more
than a word
like filament
designed against
agapē
alighted
Alaskan
in tangled winds
adorned

Tarkovsky Gold

is a field
through which
i’d run
to you
from
a home
where apart
meant
marionette
in anywhere
as the ways
to use
tundra
in a phrase
that would name
me everything
that leans
when i
thought
i had waited
long enough
to send you
on your way
what does
one say
of the sun’s
part
in it

In Me Are Many Foes

—after Bachelard

one aria
of waves
assailing
vessel
lapidary
lilt
an-
other
shroud
lidded
cauldron
found
forum
of one
simmering
piqued
& what
gives out
a viaduct
to an
interior
the pre-
eminent grant
of collapse

Lapse

there are leaves
that have gone
too dark
to be named
other than
humus
in hours
we lose
to what passes
you’re tracking
mud inside
but i couldn’t
be less
incensed
at how
two sparrows
complex
above
the jutting hinges
of your hips
don’t you see?
we
shatter abruptly