The Anonymous Way

Photographs of people in night dark living rooms
The thieves entered the warehouse just before dawn
She doubted the doubter
Like what else was I supposed to do
You could not be seen without being visible
Even so the evergreens withstood the winter wind
He forgetteth not the cry of the humble
Walking down a wet dark street at nine

She looked through eyes and I saw mine
Not a single stone on the staircase counted
Now is the time for the biggest sale ever
His feelings disappeared like salt in the ocean
Even the night shall be light about me
There is only a sort time to act
Sun enough to crush the sky with light
Shine on your shoes and cut your hair

Summer light as spilled cream
She lived in strange dead evenings
Television blue across the lawn
We made it
He tried to stop what he started
The dreams of households wrestle the sleeping streets
Satellites go unnoticed across the blue dawn
The Earth's upheaval turns and brings the Sun

He saw the summer on lines of telephone poles
Slowly the intersection traffic light turned to green
A blackbird perched high on the sagged wires
Billboard incommunicado
She had blue jean shorts and blond hair
The glass truck diver noticed the blackbird
There was no end to the afternoon Sun
And yes you will never get that back

In the woods in 1956 the green road
Pictured in a story book with yellow lines
He never forgot that yellow color
Now the woods surround the road to work
Unnamed trees whisper and disappear at high speeds
She heard an old song on the windshield
At home a toothpaste tube waits for night
Asleep the attic light turned on

As the sky of summer reaches the end
As he heads into the night
As the Sun blows hot and radiating
As her green days recede further
A moment of laughing daffodils found in spring
A triumph of dust beneath an old chair
A walking spider surveys a night of stars
A neighborhood summit slowly decreases the burnt ground

The days came and went never to return
She laughed and turned putting her cigarette out
Shopping at the mall he rode home alone
White walls make for a safe gas station
There are new dreams awaiting everyone at midnight
Outside the streets hold their own against morning
The clock on the fireplace turned itself around
Breathing became a way of life for the both of them

Summer's corpse lives in leaves on the ground
In clouds of late betraying skies studiously adrift
He had one question where are the laws
A shy scientific mind would never see God
Grease and slippery dirt on the asphalt road
And all the while the Sun's mechanics hide
The light disappeared as she left the room
The drinking man knew it was gone

Glenn road keeps going down and turning abruptly
There are mansions that only know the Sun
The remains of farmers still survive
The silence of summer afternoons never truly fades
International prepaid calling cards and Pepsi available here
She wondered how things could change so quickly
But after all its just bones under skin
And you know he never really knew love

A dead rug of trees mopped the highway
Night cars throwing themselves ahead of the road
She would later think of it as unusual
In a window the summer is showing fall
Though he would later come to regret it
A dead man spoke though his living son
Today we know so much more about space
The darkness around eyes gradually overcome

In August losing to night by the minute
The Baltimore road was hard enough to kill
How is it that so many people count
Trucks had squared the leaves of leaping trees
Given enough time anything was possible in America
Suicidal rain drops crush the tops of cars
She laughed at the thought of everything spinning
There is a house that has never forgotten

The parking lot trees changed like a storybook
He knew it’s always day and always night
A strange vision of the always falling cliff
It’s here its here but only in America
That boat would never see the surface again
And horses run because they like to run
She was filled with rage by that time
The sky was coming down across the windshield

Wristwatch buried in a drawer full of shirts
Her goal was to wear only white sneakers
Summer became so full of life and shadow
The ground keeps giving way to new earth
How could he ever explain this to anyone
Trees and neon turning and tumbling into nothing
The gray dog appeared as obvious as winter
The radio played she loves you yeah yeah

She opened the door and was gone forever
Each branch of each tree came into focus
An usual amount of rain for the fall
Haze on the road foreshadowed a bright brown
Once started there was simply no turning back
Stranded lights hung high in the highway morning
On television the laughing waitress knew it all
As if a cave would actually protect her

The light of the license plate grew dim
She grabbed his head and kissed him passionately
The feelings had already decomposed into ashen rivers
Every electric guitar on sale at Best Buy
Summer’s end began when the screen door closed
The dreamer’s cold face in the dark bedroom
After work he took her aside to speak
They woke up to find themselves in love

A big brown house sitting in the weeds
Beneath the floorboards the conveyor belt road sped
Taking time for a cup of coffee helps
He wished he had never said a thing
Blunt Virginia roads have always made her sad
Why has it taken until now to understand
Galaxies of stones in the church parking lot
As evening set even the mountains vanished

Flute playing as a New York City street
He worshiped a God who allowed senseless death
The night stood completely still outside the house
No he thought it would never be believed
The asphalt parking lot could offer no condolences
Even the Sun could only continue to burn
A dream of kissing turned to just sleep
But the backyard dirt never lost its magic

At dawn two crows ate in the street
The space between her lips held it all
Providing a new and better way of life
There is a gone road where everything goes
The total number of breaths taken is knowable
September days laugh like a happy corpse lying
She slept alone in her bedroom
His arms could hold a lot but weakly

All of a sudden it became another moment
The night before they died everything was settled
In another time it would have seemed funny
His mother lives inside him to this day
Layers of darkness covered the middle of night
Far away you could see the deer crossing
Another evening came and brought down the walls
Her eyes shown like buds in early spring

So every Massachusetts day and every flagpole morning
Secrets like leaves of fall out of focus
The product was not sold in any store
Years later cleaning the bathroom he remembered her
It was a time not unlike the present
The Sun playing its beggar self quickly disappeared
She knew it was over way back then
If only we could know the real truth

November trees wire whisk the stainless steel sky
You could get a million dollars in gold
Trucks playing God all across the Pennsylvania night
He thought for a moment and turned away
The warmth of that radiator was never forgotten
Yes this and everything else we have seen
She shattered the crumb with her red fingernail
Cattails in a chorus against the concrete highway

Her blond hair hid over her winter shoulder
Time and a change of attitude were responsible
They had never known a more gracious host
Now that’s the way to really see things
Ten or more years passed after the death
You can have it all and even more
November night with hat and cane dancing yellow
He saw his father and thought I’m dead

There was never enough of anything he wanted
The deep river was all at the surface
The famous B-52 would be retired in 2037
A pile of firewood soaked in the rain
But in her arms she held a truce
Sparrows flying too low to see the sky
In the years ahead time became a helmet
And you thought somehow we would all survive

If anything the rain was a welcomed relief
Surfaces of fresh cut wood slashed October afternoons
A single great idea could change the world
You could say he had everything and more
Daybreak came whistling like a worn out teapot
Hidden behind everything in back of the garage
Her mornings were full but he was gone
In another room the light was finally arriving

A tent of pulled flesh and mechanical bones
Halfway through the flight the plane began descending
Inside her mouth her tongue sought its escape
This could be the opportunity of a lifetime
Parking lot lines beneath the snow pointed nowhere
Everywhere he saw the blue of her dress
Evergreens carried the winter gray into the night
Suddenly the Sun disappeared as if by magic

Another morning came rushing up the exit ramp
It was just December coming to an end
Now you talk about losing something every day
She began to feel something like coca cola
The order form read check every 5000 miles
Gray concrete pillars held up the dirty sky
Yes the odds are it could be you
Never a day he didn't think of her

All around her was the air she breathed
A book full of old song lyrics disappeared
At night the Sun ends its atomic reign
They had little choice but to invest heavily
Cars entered the highway only to get off
So that was what they were thinking about
Tree roots twisted the asphalt into black waves
That idea would never cross his mind again

Hours consumed like the slush beneath a truck
Under her blouse the darkness of fabric spread
The appellate judges expressed unease with the process
Looking out the blinds he saw the traffic
Separated by only a row of black televisions
This could be the happiest moment you’ve known
Children puzzled and twirled becoming yellow and blue
That he knew how to keep Christmas well

AM radio waves on telephone poles at night
Cars together driving on roads never meet again
Everything suddenly became urgent as evening turned night
You could pay hundreds more in a store
Seeing her was enough to disbelieve her leaving
In this room was kindergarten so long ago
You have been told over and over again
The air outside suddenly hurt him with emotion

Salmon clouds over the end of city skies
The flights could begin as soon as Wednesday
It was all over but still not concluded
He thought that this could be the night
Diamonds of wood made paths across the floor
Her foot on the brake had no reaction
Mother waited for them alone in her housedress
Forgiveness became something you see only on TV

After everyone went home faces emptied like streets
At the dashboard’s edge the windshield saw everything
So do our minutes hasten to their end
New rooms disappeared as unfamiliar as a dream
Sitting in the outbox the draft email waited
To keep the hardware moving each offered loans
He rubbed his eyes and darkness became sunlight
To this day her thoughts often wander back

Later that night trees shaking in violent indecision
There must be some way out of here
Winter feels its past as an overwhelming shadow
A couple of stores in a strip mall
By this time she had learned to drown
He found himself lost again with no feelings
Nothing had slipped nothing had been overlooked there
Hours murder minutes just as minutes murder seconds

The music was indifferent to the time played
She stood alone and enjoyed her own skin
Afterwards you will never be called young again
And form so soft and charms so rare
Stop don't you see that car up ahead
There was no turning back and never is
Penicillin the greatest medical advance of that decade
He peaked in and turned off the light

Bridge over route 50 with white chalk sides
The city lights continued to shine without purpose
Then came the churches then came the schools
You can’t afford to miss this big event
Every road is connected with every other road
He say I know you you know me
Awakened by the winter wind sometime before dawn
After the goodbyes her bones moved patiently

Each speech beseeched thee to reach beneath belief
Silent forests grow their whiskers though the snow
Many are they that rise up against me
Come on in and have a little fun
I looked everywhere but could not find you
Handling this success has become quite a chore
He predicted it would be sunny all day
In the freight yard rolled an empty train

Troubled the backspace key deleted
Snow of every altitude gratefully falling
She was hiding
Swarms of blues over ordinary streets
My sin is constantly before me
He reached for a cigarette and met his a match
Inside a boy smiling dying
Here's looking at you

If I were hungry I would not tell you
There was no plausible explanation
He lost his immortality
A Ford Fiesta in a Los Angles ally
Just what do you think you are doing
Her tears never surfaced
Particles colliding without fear or regret
Graveyards stand patiently like a seed

He came in looking as irrelevant as Mozart
For thou art my rock and my fortress
City bird with Montgomery Wards wings
You saw her playing that little miss appearing
Forest floor tree happy to have finally fallen
It seemed that we would lose the race
Quiet sanitariums of chalk and dead men talking
And here I stood almost 20 years ago

Clouds choke the sky in a beautiful war
He was not the rider but the ridden
Time had become old during all the laughter
It’s true you are our most important customer
Even length of days for ever and ever
He gradually became convinced that he would die
The tree shook snow waving her feminine arms
The precise number of full moons is fixed

Earth’s useless spinning traces the Sun’s unseen orbit
I flew across winters of stinging needle trees
Premium brewed green tea using filtered water honey
Ok so where were you when everything happened
What desolations he hath made in the earth
A life lived as perfect as hotel pillows
Weighed down by gravity and whipped by wind
The truck was unable to stop in time

A dreaming mind changed by the whistling wind
The night ahead less beautiful than the sunset
His eyes could see through the clearest glasses
Have mercy upon me and hear my prayer
So be sure to come back again soon
A fleshy nose pointing down the night roadway
You stopped coming around about five years ago
Lines of people waiting to check things out

Accustomed to the sight of dead roadside animals
In those days things were much more yellow
The darkness between the trees secretly turned black
One of them would eventually bury the other
When our doors open tomorrow you will see
The foolish shall not stand in thy sight
Mother’s smile was as wide as the sky
The red car got smaller and then disappeared

No Smoking
Go Slowly
No Floating
115:7
No Knowing
Go Joking
He could not connect the past with the present
She stayed inside her skin as much as she could

There has never been a better time
The long morning cut short
You shall break them with a rod of iron
Always the footsteps falling
That part of his life was finally settled
Level as the line of night
She wished him good luck
Distant the door came knocking

What will happen will happen
Tourtured by the false the truth speaks
She finished her sandwich and disappeared
Rain turning cold dies to snow
Their heart is destruction
A phone number in his pants pocket
This is a limited time offer
The dream hung on through the morning

The house collapsed in sadness
Outside the wind blew untouched
Do it right this time
She had to rethink her strategy
An evening as dry as childhood dirt
The righteous will be remembered forever
A little uncomfortable with his surprised arousal
The headlights could not be stopped

Curves betray the Sun’s magnetic dance
This time she went left
Helpless as the burned edges of evening
The arrow that flies by day
After a while his entire life was forgotten
Celebrating the best of everything
And you think its really possible
The heart’s electrons go unpunished

I’m not going to tell you what to do
Hope came leaping like unguarded light
From this time forth and forevermore
She closed her eyes to get a better look
An Afternoon’s warmth left abandoned
The possibilities are virtually endless
Behind him the police car cruised
All knowing moon shown like a face

Blue plastic scissors like lost love
Truth is a conversation
It was over before it began
Gas station sign rules the night highway
Her smile as she picked up the rose
Feet dancing the copy machine rhythm
Did his grandfather think the same way
My zeal wears me out

Neon overshadows night’s empty riches
Hallway wind lost in winding stairwells
Her way of walking
Now for the first time anywhere
I was mute with silence
His heart dissolved in secret explosions
November slipped between time’s thin fingers
And the band played on

The Sun impersonating a washed dollar bill
Security cameras orchestrated watch
In whose eyes a vile man is despised
Then I saw her face
She was last observed walking
Inside the usual infinite expanse
Night seeped into the closed store
The dream came to him dreaming

When I choose the appointed time
Fathers and sons in moons of gravity unwinding
The opportunity of a lifetime
He had returned never to be seen again
Under the snow the asphalt sought patience
Never in a million years she thought
It had become old hat by now
Around the Sun came Winter’s funeral parlor

A day's misplaced design
The next second lining up
He knew it all along
Minutes like emergency room hours
She awoke to the sound of television
Under the piano the leg scratched
The wicked hunt down the weak
What's going on

Falling between the cracks in logic’s unseen shadow
Protons like misdirected snowflakes dissemble
She could no longer hold onto the passing days
Both small and large animals
There was a great sense of relief as evening withdrew
I'm not your stepping stone
For a time he thought it could be a reality
A stand of anorexic trees betray their owner's trust

Her childhood had become a distant blur
Face the facts with eyes ablaze
Skullduggery and endless summer nights
Brain power to the rescue
Mind and heart are cunning
Neuron networks working while to wend
Synapses connected all his thoughts
I'm a believer

Highway divider bubbling over in dirty snow
There was a room that he could no longer remember
A comet gradually accelerating in deep thought
She laughed in controlled skids
Happiness is not for the faint of heart
I'm doing the right thing
The weekend passed like a truck
Wash me and I will be whiter than snow

Recollections on a warehouse wall
In July his mother came smiling
Kissed by clouds of dawning mornings
Their inward thought is that their houses will endure forever
Lost car keys and an old cigarette lighter
Black cars vanishing under heavy fog
She left him standing like a cashed check
Don’t stop thinking about tomorrow

Under city streets streaming words pass in silence
The Sun envious of the moon’s decision
She was told nothing
At last he felt free
Hot white the streets of childhood remembered
Surely every man walks like a shadow
Years later in September the anger fell away
Dead people speaking in dreams

A ringing bell 1947
Invisible jealousy leaking from rain covered lips
I believe in music
A pink donkey laughing long ago in a story
Just like yesterday when it is past
He thought someday even he could look like that
Blues swirling across the Pennsylvania night
Carefully she placed the lipstick in her pocket

He saw the worlds coming to him
She saw all the flavors
He said let it all in
She said I think I'm here
He said that he would destroy them
She said yesterday
He saw eveything that was not his
She saw the limits of seeing

Morning stepped nervously into night's darkness
Somebody has to pay for this
Gusts of gray winter wind filling a remembered dead end
Get the feeling
She stopped and smiled to herself
Their words to the end of the world
He was too late and he knew it
Leaping with glee from the heart's narrow gangplank

Moonlight quickly coming to a sudden stop
A dog barking in yards of fog
He hoped it would go unseen
Small towns disappearing in the rearview
Will your jealousy burn like fire
She kept her secrets to herself
Ribbons of ancient carbon decaying
Television stars dying out

Time is old
Ventilator humming until silenced by sleep
It only took a second for everything to happen
She told everyone she would never change
Plant hanging in a dentist’s office at 3:38 am
Longing dissolving in parking lots of love
He laughed and walked away
For they are from old times

Thoughts came blanketed in soft deceptive foam
It was the time of his life
Only later did she realize what happened
Embarrassed by the wind rain dries up
I will not forget your word
Smell of crayons on cardboard and coffee
This is the end of the line
A sunny day in the age before humans

Mountains with no end in sight
Planets and stars swing on strings of disbelief
This is the end beautiful friend
She knew she could get away with it
They have slept their last sleep
Driving away from a gas station tryst
Hours later he decided to go
How many times do you need to be told

A crocus deceives the lying Sun
Photons happily becoming pixels
His greatest weakness was never failing
Tonight tonight
She was the last one to know the family secret
Love singing in traffic jams of caskets
At a late hour the final cards are dealt
Hear me when I call

A darkness younger than time
Humid doors open into the barroom night
Her satisfied grin turned orange and dissolved in shame
I drench my couch with my tears
A stockbroker once said this is the life
Empty pockets filled with neutrinos nervous swagger
When the Sun left winter's ledge his eyes darkened
Best time of the year to consider a new car purchase

These words read by a cat
These words read by a scanner
These words read by an invisible stranger
These words read by an unborn mother
These words read by her
These words read by a video card
These words read by the government
Then they believed his words

Twisted are the wires of love
His lies had long been forgotten
Armies of angelic electrons conquer the night
Forgiveness arrived late and crept upstairs
It was never her plan to completely disappear
This is freedom I’m telling you
Stand in awe and don’t sin
Days that scrape the heart’s corrosive lining

Moments as real as wood or at least a splinter
Every note sounded deeper in his chest
Everything you always wanted
In June a television set turned off
Seek peace and pursue it
Her words came out entirely different
A selfish Sun embittered the remaining snow
You ain't seen nothing yet

Every night a dumpster collecting star light
Her world was a wide windshield
It’s impossible to say
But joy comes in the morning
Interconnecting lines informing and deforming
Pain as old as water as light as the moon
He kept a small handgun just in case
Dry mouths singing churchlike together

Turnpikers link up and leave
Her past never caught up with her
Afternoon wind stills the early breathing earth
He got away with it
A winning smile losing regret
Shakespeare’s memory of sonnet 73
They went through the river on foot
An old forgotten pain like a slipknot tightening

The Sun was done before rising
Her thin smile threading time's needle
This was the moment they had all been waiting for
His arrogance filled the fun-houses of others
In the morning they sprout like new grass
Later on the window closed
Rusted relic sprouting unknown roses
The brother with the walkie-talkie remained unmoved

What's the big idea
He jumped at the chance
In the multitude of my thoughts within me
Atoms hurling from the water faucet into a new life
Trees of October giving ground
Her mother had hurt her in a special place
The pastor spoke the incoherent word of God
Lifting out the earth from a child's pants pocket

Truth springs out of the earth
Breeze across the schoolyard gathers
On her shoulders the history of the Sun
Dust in the house of my mother
Excitement at the door unanswered
His memory of the dream had faded
Never
The speaker announced departing for St. Louis

In Italy in the movies in 1953
Car’s hot hood gleaming like Don Juan
It was time for a change
She stopped and turned around
Clouds left the evening Sun to die
Across the city morning clanged its cracked gong
Underneath everything is hot iron
He looked carefully and stepped out

Saturday in skies of white skin
Silent rain concludes the river’s delusion
My bones are burned as a torch
It was an inside job
Her blue dress became harder to imagine
Night’s overcoat filled with holes
He laughed at the very thought
Midmorning was gone like a quick holiday

On Thursday it’s already Friday
Evening shadows side with the night
Details of the year faded into purple numb
Everything had to happen now
His hand came upon the untouchable
Her jewel box watch had stopped
My times are in your hand
Late spring afternoon came with droopy dog eyes

Shadows of trees parallax the moon
This time there would be no turning back
Kamikaze words falling on deaf ears
The empty high school track at 4:35
Ashamed he could not stop looking
But I will always hope
Carloads of commuters rounding the bend
Back in her bedroom she waited for sleep

Saying never ever
Late hours decompose in droughts of love
Electrons hold tight the incandescent line
His was the world of his choice
The great American intersection
Everything changed in chains of changes
She dreaded mornings and the Alfred Hitchcock shower
I am confined and I can't escape

She looked askance
Numb stockings on cold floors
His cigar remained unlit
Leaves of spring march to oblivion
They shall fear you while the Sun endures
Sidewalks never ending
Sky’s violet night feeling no pain
It was bound to happen one day

Knives of winter stab unconsciously
Morning found an unstoppable Sun
The city reveals its makeshift scenes
In January a hurtful memory declines
Deliver my soul from the sword
This time we’ll do it right
He drove an insignificant sedan
She smiled at her misfortune

All this consciousness moving around
His shirt was made in the Sun
Forsythia yellows like a sudden realization
Mistaken electrons flowing backwards
What is man that you think of him
A parked car sees everything
There was nothing they could do to help her
Evening comes around like a drunk puppet

What is under this building
Along the night dying trains turning brown
Yes that's the way to do it
Little thoughts gather and go
His pain was never closer
Down the rusted world of old stores
Destroy them in your truth
She never thought twice about it

In the time it takes to read these words
No response from an exploding Sun
The floods have lifted up their voice
She looked down the eons at her vanity
Unaware of the dark graffiti in his heart
Apple trees bloom over strip mall doorways
In August the sound of terminal bushes
Help you know I need someone help

He came from history with a blue hat and a smile
It was never in doubt
Clouds clearing the way for rain
At dusk a painful old memory
They have hands but they don’t feel
She came from a red spinning giant
Guilty as a star sneaking behind the dawn
The unremembered revel in red-hot laughter

Forgiveness came later
Don’t worry
Cold beneath clothes
She danced
He breathed
They never change
Less than a second
Photons delight

Tears fall a long way inside
Storm clouds in purple conference
Highway shrubs imprisoning shards of sunlight
You have taken away all your wrath
His age had come and gone
Smell of old classrooms and sour lunches
In early May mountains decry the weight of air
Not long ago the happiest day of her life

Late night television playing to no one
This could be the happiest time of your life
At dusk a newspaper flies unconvincingly
Comet hurrying the Sun and startling the stars
A note stays still in the darkness of a drawer
She held on but only for so long
There is nothing hidden from its heat
His body had suddenly become rock

She was moving far away from time
Shaky trees caught the midnight moon
The wild wind remembers an ancient pain
Change is inevitable
He thought about the world outside him
As peach blossoms turn and face the truth
It was never meant to be this good
That brings forth its fruit in its season

Electric lights and shopping strip shadows
Her smile like a flat tire surprise
Afterlife of a dead end at a river
Even neon sings the blues
Weeping may stay for the night
He was still breathing
Long green lights down the yellow lines
Under deep waves lie vacant particles

Another spring
Unaware of his secret hatred
She walked in fogs of old dreams
You renew the face of the ground
Dogwoods chase the wind away
Sky's the limit
Only the chill remained
So this is it

East meets west but how
He found his credit card
Evenings tumble in a Gettysburg motel
It's all natural
She remembered thinking about the past
Your throne is established from long ago
Peach trees like a fourteen year old
Two years later everything was forgotten

Late lights the city bloom
A thought of neurons connecting
Her face exploded like the soft eternal Sun
In November the cold back staircase
He lived in lines and boxes
Be emotional
It can’t be moved
Blue coffins of ancient shame dying

Her deepest regret was forgetting
As oceans of doubt drown at sunset
Wheels unwind the strange impoverished world
There’s just no stopping it
He never considered why anymore
The world is also established
Waking up a failed dream
Curse the ire of God’s logic

She wanted a new look
Night wanted the sky to end
The rain just wanting to want
Wanted for murder
Wanting another hour
My enemies want to swallow me up all day long
No wants
He wanted to stop

One hour later
He looked impenetrable as a storefront
Searching the sky for irrelevant clues
Cherry blossoms snowing unnoticed
Her legs left her standing
Streets invisible as touching
In your light shall we see light
Momma was missing

The bones of all the dead
It's high time we went home
His years shall be for generations
He finally came to his senses
Intervening like a meadow in April
She hit the brakes to no avail
Falling through a summer night
After a while the wind died down

Minutes before the alarm went off
His ship had just come in
No evil shall happen to you
Sleeping on trains of thought
Her eyes under party lights
Where streets turn green and combine
Now that's a tall order
On the shelf the book stares blankly

In April a night bird's chuckle
Apple trees releasing recalled pain
Ok
For you will eat the labor of your hands
Her language could no longer speak
Highway signs spraying photons
He walked away laughing
No stopping the hypocritical fire truck

They thought it couldn't be done
They can see the inside of your fingers
They knew him by his past
They moved in parallel circuits
They gave her everything
They had nothing to complain about
They are caught in the schemes that they devise
They would really never know

Brightness blinding roadside brush
Stop sign in the hour of tall shadows
True for time immemorial
Her love had become immaterial
I wait for you all day long
Happiness hid like a secret lawn
Purple mornings breathe phenomenon
He never thought twice

Cold moon rolls indifferently
He held in his ancient hand
She stopped wearing makeup
Your right hand holds me up
Yellow lines and green memories
Telephone every town I know
Guilty as the never satisfied Sun
In 1962 a car enters a garage at night

Her self disguised as an April day
Unbeknownst the city at 5:15
His tie was caught short
Afternoons of grimy kitchen tiles
Dusk convincing as a model’s smile
Only later did the thought arise
What is man that you think of him
Sadness like a subway station flying away

Bloodied the sky scabbed over
How the day became long
Children's workbook clown in pink
You will let me live
He stopped on black tracks
Kindness in the space of a minute
She was known to all and none
A heart's purple envy becoming anger

Slowly the Earth comes closer
She was more beautiful than remembered
A rain puddle made it through the night
No laughing matter
He saw with two eyes
The survivors of your wrath are restrained
A lie like a roadside bomb
In June a second passes quickly

Early blooms homesick and numb
Her eyes as true as relativity
Light fell to the floor
His feet walked the night
A world riot of quarks
In dreams the impossible believe
He causes the grass to grow for the livestock
In the days before the Sun

Worlds too few for many
Rain feeling its way to the ground
She knew the way grass knows the forest
Redemption in hot veins of blood
Listen all you inhabitants of the world
A decision owned free and clear
His body bought time with irrelevance
Car alarm at night like a lie

Belief in his pocket
Geese believing in Canada
I believed therefore I said
Sun believing the sky until night
Her belief fell apart like a late fire
Caught speeding on streets of belief
Believe what you see
Weeds believe their lies by day

All time enveloped in a raindrop
Weather came in like a television snow
He was layers of tissue and tubes of cells
The starlight came to rest in her eyes
The upright shall see his face
Rocks resisting the microscope of love
Morning had already forgotten the night
Its all clear

Days like a canceled television show
An emotion turning like an afternoon breeze
Black and white days of childhood remembered
He walked into thin air
They will utter the memory of your great goodness
She never felt so fully alive
Even days seek beginnings
A row of lights down the highway

A chill like a nervous heart
She knew right away
Lights across the river
God sleeping on a dime
Unknown as the shape of a spoon
The wicked are not so
A pile of blood and loosely connected cells
He called on the eternal cell phone

He looked like his character
This very minute we are
Reassured as bare feet on earth
Her hair came to an end
For it passes quickly and we fly away
Jugs in yesterday’s basement
Everyone who has ever lived
Moons of moons and moons

Her days were an unread book
In late June an hour disappeared
Sun light arrived amazingly
Apart from you I have no good thing
He never saw himself
A frog in darkness swaying
World without end
Ice froze into despair

Again and again
He was twice reminded
Afternoon of running mud
In Virginia clocks were ticking
Her drink holder was empty
On the wicked he will rain blazing coals
Seemingly blue the curtains turned
Steps secretly became stairs

In the days before days
I will not give sleep to my eyes
Around the dock the clotted water clears
She considered falling
Sun sucked rooms turning pale
Rails of energetic neutrons going to work
Lines of lighted limousines in Florida
He was the victim of his own crimes

Nerves like the city’s end
A ton of time
He laughed before awakening
I am a stranger on the earth
Love like old dust
She wondered a while
Ships set sail underground
Horses behold the changeless world

He slept before the earth mattered
She loved herself but didn't know
And the sheep in his care
Excited states of America
Dull sunlight in a void balloon
Moments came begging
Memories of the dreams of wheels
It was time to stop

God’s shadow between the pixels
Even her shirt seemed sad
Unending spell of green spring days
He in worlds much smaller
Strands of hair as long as love itself
Like a deaf cobra that stops its ear
Everything will happen
Now the night comes through screens

The fool has said in his heart there is no God
Speech with no beginning
Darkness with no stars
January with no Sun
Time with no length
Heart with no gold
She with no scarf
He fell like Rome

Even daylight dies
Drowning in knowing
Every hour will come
He was never more aware
A jay saw everything
He drew me out of many waters
When she left the house that night
Prayers like fireflies in April

A long silent drive
He prayed in translation
Another snowflake
An empty room’s happiness
Her hand with rings
Words receive their sentence
History like a California highway
There the ships go

She realized it was time
Lines of seventh innings
Spent petals line God’s hideaway
Woodpecker at 3:35 am
He changed his mind
Dumb like a television off
I have gone astray like a lost sheep
None but the brave

A parade on streets without necks
Numbed horses whacked by night’s cruel illusion
Hers were kept secret from the world
Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the fowler’s snare
The dead snake poisoned by God
His was never out of eyeshot
Earthquakes of fear just below the surface
Within the hour everyone had died

Daylight as stubborn as the Sun
He made a list two years before he died
Leaves like living handkerchiefs
Looking up she blushed
Phony as a cool May morning
Yes they do nothing wrong
Metro trains breathe in human tunnels
A twig alive and defiant

He didn't no
A bicycle flying in fields of sand
It happens all the time
In the multitude of my thoughts within me
Her hand lifted air
Caves harboring neutrinos delight
Halting rain in soft city steps
Unable to say what could be told

Indecision colored like new born rain
He sometimes wondered
She let the ground bury her
Scorched skies in twilights past
You’ll be amazed at what you see
Even cities rest on earth
No one saw God on television
Whose leaf also does not wither

Evil can't live with you
Her face kept reappearing
Hours soft like grayscale pearls
Summer days in black and white
He saw himself on a billboard
Hundreds of suns turned dark
Snow as silent as God's answer
Where did the time go

The same cool day
Leaving people to see
It was over
He heard a kiss
Don't forget the helpless
She bristled
The show's over
Engine off

Swimming in a dream
Afternoon's molecular jittery jig
He returned many times
Wildflowers waving to the road
Her heels spun gold sparks
I am the song of the drunkards
Morning turned to God and blew away
Charlemagne laughed and coughed

His American days were light
Nothing was left behind
Her past had the pasts of others
Women with secrets on a train
Alone the night flower closes up
Windows shut tight against time
Among rows of empties sat God
They ran as a river in the dry places

A lost cause sunset
A word and forty years passed
Minutes dying in a sniper's vision
She had everything to look forward to
Bound by himself God escaped
Tomorrow and the next day
He thought about his last request
Day after day they pour forth speech

Green only made him happy
Guilty as leaving a dream life behind
Her eyes like black holes took in the dawn
Spring’s mosquito like St. Augustine’s concubine
Their idols are silver and gold
Cancer born one ultraviolet second later
Wake up to the satisfying flavor
October like a gun with one bullet left

She imagined another time
Night imagines the morning
He sought magnetic imagination
They imagine the worst for me
Electrons imagining a desk
Rivers of unseen imaginings
Imagine me and you
I do

Mistakes learning and turning
Her job was to satisfy
Gone though never left
It was never lost on him
I want to be in your TV
God drizzling in pale blue
Kitchen flies and forgotten memories
Let me never be disappointed

Some things God doesn’t know
The temperature of skin
He gave them hail for rain
Her child became her mother’s laugh
He was here but never here at all
Oak tree shadow now a memory
Calling all cars
The monastic dance obscure

Her old love withered red
Starlight colliding in dead suns
Hours labor like a theme park night
His smile moved quickly
Green paths in God’s deserted street
Positive charged particles decomposing
Run down to your local store right now
There is none who does good

Patient as the half-life of glass
The kingdoms were moved
Timely as a secret thought
Gone as the wind
He hid it all to himself
Sky as blue as God’s astonishment
Her car accelerated with the rest
Soon it would be over

Dandelions important as thoughts
Come to your senses
He worked in a world of forms
Mosquitoes trapped in summer's tunnel
An aviary of cars above the city
She collected her recollection
A dream of God awaking
Try my heart and my mind

Playing in clouds of genes and circumstances
As memorable as the first day of love
Her skin went with her through life
Discontent came like Friday
I will rejoice in the shadow of your wings
His eyes peered into uncertain rooms
Chromosomes born in Sun's violent past
And God called blindly in the blue night

Black hats entangled in air
Dawn overwhelmed by sky
He woke up without a choice
Caught in God's oversized cloak
Her love shimmered like atoms
The show must go on
For there is none to help
In December wood on fire

Secrets of a dead end street
Nomadic coffee cups blow across a winter lot
She knew what God didn’t understand
There is nothing hidden from its heat
Marvelous insanity of space and mind
His sorrow drained deep into the earth
Schoolyard of late afternoons
Happiness arrived like a muffin

Water beneath a morning wish
Everyone on the platform turned away
Wind blowing off the Sun
Treetops lazy as all eternity
Reckless driving at midnight in the rain
Atop the stadium watched God
On his law he meditates day and night
She stumbled with the idea of herself

Coming soon to a theater near you
Her lips grew wide
It was never meant to be
Embarrassment like Christmas morning
He felt annoyed at the very thought
For I am a stranger with you
A few hours later God could finally relax
They determined it to be an inside job

His mind made up
Coolness in the woods
The ground gave way
X-rays saw through God
Her final offer
Humans formed into lines
Where in the world
The seas and everything that moves therein

Across the street puddles glistening
She was caught unaware
Turbulent night at harbor
I wanna hold your hand
Skies weep with God
His strength was his greatest weakness
Years later paint peeling from empty windows
My eye wastes away because of grief

Back when God was crazy
Trees bled purple on parked cars
I’m happy I tell you
He shaved seconds off his face
She worked for a living
Let them sing for joy on their beds
Jewels as tough as time’s hard window
Skies colliding through supermarket roofs

Meanwhile in green rushing dreams
Now that was incredible
The wicked are not so
She thought she was content
All night the cars kept coming
In cities God wandered alone
Snow had become unthinkable
He pulled the wheel just in time

Save the day
He thought tomorrow would be like today
Awakened like a reluctant scroll bar
Forgotten mornings remembered by others
Before thunder a melancholy cloud
Her chances were slim and cool as evening
Even length of days forever and ever
God arrived seconds too late

His consciousness followed him everywhere
Her hands danced in thin air
Then I would fly away and be at rest
Yellow standing naked for no one
By day's end the dawn hid waiting
Tripped up by a cynical megabyte
Thick rusty gun of August alone
There was just no way of telling

Peace appeared sinful
Romantic afternoons faded like Byzantium
His sunglasses held back his tears
Morning flowers speechless as God's own deism
How long
It was only a dream
Her time was up
Long as the green road turning

Hello said the frog
It's time for a change
She took it to heart
Attend to me and answer me
Gone is the reason for things
His skepticism ate him
Nothing to touch
A hard night's day

The old man kept appearing
Summer night 1954 his hand writing
Television in a movie on television
Guns on a floor made of wood
Silver moonlight shone on his knife blade
Day and night they prowl around on its walls
Now is the time for all good men
Her body was never found

Then at last the big day came
The Sun’s warm semen across a field of wildflowers
Don’t keep silent
Her dress covered nothing
Streetlights playing on the roofs of cars
Crazy times in a house of two grandmothers
Near morning the stars fled at the speed of light
His dreams were like a turtle on a highway line

Her name was know only to her
Incalculable dreams and restless nights
Constipated sky rumbling
He thought to himself here comes the train
Stars dying at the speed of light crying
And terrify them with your storm
Fear stabbing like a broken spoke
Changes come around real soon

The wicked walk on every side
The future Sun will kill his bride
The days of rock and ocean tides
He sought the gray bewildered skies
She fought the widowed children's cries
The golden orchestra replies
A second loses time and dies
Erectus reaches for the prize

Fear raining bullets of molten lead
He saw himself sitting across the aisle
An open door let in the night
I have become a stranger to my brothers
Atoms in a lawless parade
Daylight overstayed its hour
Miles away the late train passed on
She was all smiles

Sleepwalking had become a way of life
Her nose looked like 1956
The road became pixels to be deleted
In your light shall we see light
A candy wrapper in a parking lot
His car was hot
All things bright and beautiful
Warmed by the coolness of night

They also sing
Love also drums
Time also runs
He also fell
Light also arrives
Stars also die
She also remembered
Hours also perform

Sun around the corner
Artificial leaves on the street
The whisper of early spring rain
Hey what's the matter with you
Let all them be shamed who serve engraved images
It was bound to happen sooner or later
He rose to the occasion
She pictured a sunny day

Her breath became everything
Lost as an ant knocked off course
Lost love is a missing chapter
They walk in his ways
He trafficked in false images
The sky as it would never be again
Pull up a chair an join me
A memory of driving in a forgotten car

He didn't know what he looked like
Across the stars a vanishing elevator
Sunny mornings deceptively growing longer
The next voice you hear
I will fear no evil
She took her mirror out of her bag
Floating in a train under oceans of cement
Tomorrow told its secrets slowly

Some days you just can’t find
Some ties you just can’t bind
She took her self to dancing
He shook his head laughing
Try my heart and my mind
Behind that railroad sign
They say there’ll be a hanging
Standing straight as a line

Impregnable as the heart's cell wall
Softness losing its touch
A cool stairwell led down to the grave
This is the biggest news of the century
She questioned department store mirrors
You sell your people for nothing
Glorious plastic machine gun on the ground
His death foretold his birth

Suns enough to light the sky
That I tell you is madness
Chaos waited of the edge of town
Coming home he was overwhelmed by summer
I will not break my covenant
It was never meant to be that way
Her vision of herself hovered over wildflowers
Ears unheard

Nothing like life
That long ago classroom
Fingers on a hand coming to an end
My years with sighing
Shout it from the rooftops
He walked backwards in the rain
Her moods grew predicable as thunder
A daisy in an open field at 2:52 am

Dream runner standing still on a carousel
He had hoped for more
Morning held hostage in the clouds
Seconds away from Earth
She greeted everyone
Love faded like the end of an asphalt path
They have hands but they don’t feel
Lovely the tunnel takers

All this has come on us
Late August breeze teases
He carries his body everywhere
She never bothered to say goodbye
Let the devil be dammed
Smokers like circling crows
With fall coming God resurfaced
Smell of bowling ally days

Happy shall he be
Leaves of immaculate green
Time is a clumsy tailor
Later on the sunburned road vanished
He held everything in his skin
Billie Holiday singing in the Marriott bar
Her suspicions confirmed the worst
Get well soon

A marathon of choices captured in time
Days later happiness surprised all
Don't draw me away with the wicked
The heat never let up
She secretly loved her red coat
As night came on an uncertainty
This is the real life
At noon a silent car stalls

My bones are wasted away
Hours like a butterfly of predestination
His feet recalled the way
Hey get your cold beer
Strange as night thought God
She always thought things would change
Down the starlight came rushing
Quiet the headphone people crying

Let their way be dark and slippery
Never a day without hope
Weeds of winter turned to blossom
Mice moving in hidden patterns
Blue Chevy waiting in a forgotten field
Fear arrived beneath the city stones
His skull would outlive his mind
Her perfume spilled into the troubled sea of night

He was as old as Abraham Lincoln
Pockets empty and searchless
When she finally came to town
That's just a bunch of bullshit
Love strong as sky
Truer than a 1947 blues jukebox
Every acorn that September
I believed therefore I said

Reeling and rocking in the night
A dog's voice brown as dead money
She came upon a lucky charm
History in the making
I hate every false way
This line finally ended
Days spent in the gutter of joy
He smiled but only a little

Black is a hard word
Dead promises consumed by never
There is no business like show business
He only looked away for a second
At 5:00 the living room clock
Who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood
Raindrops like delirious suicide bombers
She looked at him and realized

Selling blood for money
Everything unsold lay in a heap
He would never sell his pearl cuff links
Happiness like a shelf of sale items
It's the sale of the century
She sold seashells
You sell your people for nothing
A seller sold a cellar

Daylight hid a smile
His song was all in his mind
Dirty rivers running in iceless jams
Longing like a cheating parking meter
Winter was never ready
Her wallet kept change
He who sits in the heavens will laugh
In morning a dead end

This sound of rain
Roses by the road looking back forever
She wondered the width of time
Loss held lightly by the heart
Bluer than the eastern Sun
His hat blew off
Green pastures with subway holes
My cup runs over

I got to keep movin'
Awash in morning light
Keep that to yourself
Electrons playing in the sky
The world is also established
Her house inside unseen
A whale swims to forget God
He could only say goodbye

Holy jumpin’ pain-joy
Fly suspended in a dirty window
In the days of famine they shall be satisfied
He laughed uncontrollably at lunch
She knew all along that it was coming
Eyes stinging and rot with rain
Miles away the forest smoldered
Three men in a black car driving

When she woke her hair was such a mess
Unknowable to us as an infant’s duress
Fireflies vanish to the world that they finesse
Evening morning and at noon I will cry out in distress
His tie was long and only worn in jest
Inside a child was crying to confess
Sometimes God looks upon the blessed
Smile and you will be a big success

In doors of mere light
Neglect ran deep as a blue ice
She drove alone at night
You consume his wealth like a moth
His cage measured in parsecs
Don’t forget the cigarettes
Still beneath an enamel of pain
June night spins its singular tomorrows

In rain molecules bonding
For strangers have risen up against me
Sky like a storybook ending
She wished for something to happen
They had never seen anything like this
In a control room a light continues
He woke up before his shadow
Hours awash in the dead yellow paint of summer

This is really something
Behind him air in front only stone
Laughing blood from a hominid's tickle
On the kitchen table a sudden peach
There is no speech nor language
Her grandfather forgot his watch
These are the good old days
Ants surround a drop of electricity

Moments fell like moths
He could still feel 1936
No time like the present
In April a splash of gray remembrances
She turned the page roughly from anger
The city collapsed into a dream
But his heart was war
Years later a sliver of moon scarred the early evening

Wood smells splintering a mall incorruptible
Her sweater never felt at home
I am pained and bowed down greatly
Noon waited like a traffic cop
Leaves ran unseen to the window
He too wondered what stars really look like
In Manassas a motel room sat unoccupied
Walking alone a cat quickens

He became his own worst enemy
Your years will have no end
Like a ferris wheel unable to shake its cars
Her voice no longer spoke to her
Hard as rain the hours' relentless burial
Evening came blue as 1777
The beauty part comes next
Trees donated their skin

Seen long ago in a movie
She withheld her kiss
This time things are going to work out
Guilt as obvious as a dead raccoon
He had everything his way
Every desert jungle and plain running in vein
Unseen a blue mold eaten
Where is their God now

They never change
Laughter like car doors opening
His outlook turned to hills of Spain
Her ring was seldom noticed
Why the man threw the clock out of the window
Fingers commanded move
In November bright stars collide
Butterfly stories without endings

An old despised thought
She was practically there
Hard days and lost strawberries
Tuesday mastered by the Sun
You thought that I was just like you
As fast as cars on TV
He thought of everything that never happened
A road sign alone at night blinking

An empty glass of water
Waking the watery heart of God
Her eyes bluer than unseen water
Dripping like water through Thales' hand
He swam in the deep water
Rain never thinking of itself as just water
He drew me out of many waters
They buried him in six feet of water

Mid-afternoon without a story
Enough Sun to darken the gray night
Her fingers felt strange
I have gone astray like a lost sheep
The moon has no story
Another night
His story lacked an ending

Summer blue like swirls of information
You have tried me and found nothing
With God on the golf course
Her diamond would live on
Everything he pretended not to hear
Remembering the woody smell of West Virginia
Dead of the past reach up with vaporous claws
Still as the Holiday Inn swimming pool

Just in time
Heavens will laugh
Her black comb
Nights become days
Go for it
In polyester hallucinations
His no more
Blue turned green

Why do the nations rage
Sun setting behind a cloud's soft matrix
She had once been a girl
The 1933 air crackling with electricity
Sometimes even God would lie
He held his face like Cary Grant
Outside creatures feed the black earth
A handgun waiting like a remote control

Laughter like a wave hiding sadness
I have had my day
Confused moons dethrone the tides
She had no story only the ending
Consider my meditation
His throat stiffened like hot steel
Silent as the engine of the world
Unsung hymens and stolen prayers

Curious the ancient fragrance
He never had the time
At a school somewhere laughing
Waking up in cement
August waited like a long forgotten fib
The empty line said it all
Whirling faces turning into summer haze
I hate every false way

Echoed voices like a summer nightmare
He couldn't believe the four corners of the room
The word email traveling silently in radio waves
She thought it had never been thought of before
All the rich ones of the earth shall eat and worship
Tired streets of trees carved out of electric lines
The cleanest gas station ever seen by anyone
How this person came to live this very hour this way

Who do I have in heaven
What was her real desire
Where did the time go
When did he start believing
Why days and nights
How can I be sure
In September sunlight fades
Giddy with Earth spinning smiles

Sunday oblivious
She only had one more year to go
Wednesday’s were sacred
Turn your ear to me
He held everything in
Unseen branches reaching out
A cat by a trashcan eating
A car accelerating past the moon

Now and gone
As far as a star
As near as here
He was a she
She was not herself
Important as nothing
A raccoon's untested belief
A right hand of falsehood

Empty summer street afternoon
An old fear of turquoise
Trees like people stand unmoved
Sunflowers saluting the roadside
She wondered if this was a dream
He worked in rooms of wood
Later that night the radio
He took me

In childhood a bus
We are so alive
She winked
Consider my meditation
Forest fragrant in green
Cloud’s billowing light
Around the corner
He dreamed deeply

Her eyes saw everything
Deep inside the earth neutrinos gather
A mosquito's magic landing
The Sun blushed as night came on
He was in charge of nothing
Roses concerned with summer's end
Cliffs as straight as imaginary lines
The earth trembled

The southern hemisphere in a child’s mind long ago
Today is not complete without tomorrow
They drove onto the ice in a Ford
She walked her own way
Minutes piling up like dead grasshoppers
I will keep them to the end
Color televisions in a store window
He had to confess

She typed around her sadness
In a day or two wondering
The dreamers clenching hand
Predicting the sky at night
A skinless snake praying
He reveled in Gods choice of chaos
For the help of man is vain
Deli meat left over night

He came to dread Thursdays
Trains whistle late Thursday night
Thursday evening after rain
She marked Thursday on her calendar
Every Thursday moths congregate
No child on empty Thursday streets
Thursdays were always purple
Day after day they pour forth speech

American highways always
Meeting Green Lantern for lunch
Hot asphalt anguished by God’s atheism
Afternoons to play
She denied having thoughts to herself
1000 years ago a dying Scandinavian
The eyes of all wait for you
He saw dust imagined on the kitchen floor

Rule in the midst of your enemies
He saw another summer day
In a car watching trees parallax the moon
Her skin under her overcoat
Rain without excuses
As seen on TV
Smile like positively charged electrons
The dead were introduced at daybreak

He drove away at night
Earth in winter looking askance at the Sun
The Phoenician king looking at the moon
Caught looking at her watch
Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things
Desert beetle looking for a home
Here's looking at you kid
Headlights looking into the fog

Swirling
Falling from a neutron's edge
I walk in cardboard corners
Summers stored on winter’s ledge
Water appeared in the ant’s eye
He motioned to her
She returned a smile
The river of God is full of water

Pools of chlorine clearly shining
How do these words mean
He never said where he went
Surely man’s mind and heart are cunning
She fell in love with the road
Something there is
Scientific materialism like an autumn swing
The door led them down a hallway

He dreamed he woke up
Sunlight dying in a living room
Pitiless dead raccoon
Strip mall shone for everyone's eyes
Her toenails like temple tiles
Your hand presses hard on me
We will never turn back
In 1786 a dog wagging by the road

Gray as an eight-year old's birthday
Like kissing heaven's door upside down in the sky
Dirty hands on a rock that told all
Shadows like the smell of fire at night
The proud have hidden a snare for me
A rusty car full of fun
He pretended to be looking
She drove on into the tunnel

Her anger reached the speed of light
August wondered in mists of lostness
Houses receding into the distance
He did not hesitate to dream
Down staircases of wrecked platitudes
A mouse and his molecules just before dawn
You’re gonna love this
Bring my soul out of prison

Naked as the night
He remembered the air conditioning
Two neurons walking down the road
Separation and love at first sight
A lone car trailing
Robert Johnson's thoughts of himself
Her skin dissolved into dusk
Let them be like a snail which melts and passes away

If birds had wings
He threw a clock out of the window
We could stroll among the stars together
The house came to feel like Vincent Price
For it passes quickly
Fragrant ladies yawing
Her finger in the ointment
Put your arms around me baby

Walking back to the car
Mamma and grandma in Albany
Butterfly trapped in life
She was on top of everything
Plants rejoice in the shopping mall square
10:30 PM September 26 1948
For they are from old times
He finished lunch and disappeared

Blue rain her skin and a spinning 45
The space between two times narrowing
Pixels in a summer dance projecting
Blue dark hair and his peeping whiskers
Carless the rolling Virginia road winds
I run in the path of your commandments
It started in Bristol at a dee jay hop
15 years later they could hardly remember

Carol in her short cut jeans
Thoughts caught in a synaptic gap laughing
Doomsday in the garden of wildflowers
He learned not to trust himself
Clouds strafed by God's unfeeling hand
She sat on the subway reading
Stand in awe and don't sin
The gun went off before anyone knew it

Backward whirls the world
Stars delight in distancing
The Sun knows everything
Her orbit began to shrink
Escaping in a Ford Galaxy
Kepler's unsung song
He went to the local group
Until the moon is no more

Evil shall kill the wicked
Asphalt poured gracefully into evening
Moths caught in electric battle
He rubbed his childhood eyes
I am he that aches with amorous love
Breathing big bear like breaths
The biggest event ever
She alone knew the real truth

He lived in a dream world
The proof that whales could fly
A camera followed around the corner
Her pearls betrayed a hangman’s noose
Nebuchadnezzar still speaking
When he pretended to be insane
The sudden death of air without her
A turtle in Kentucky

Eyes rattling in houses at night
Something was missing
His wallet hung in his pocket
Telephone poles of truth
Her clouds lay still
Birds flying across the screen
You hold my eyelids open
Molecules of a bullet firing

He felt by time abandoned
Her heat became irrelevant
I am so troubled that I can't speak
Coal lay waiting
The sky in a 1956 storybook
Dancing the centipede collapsed
A car that did not matter
So stop already

Worlds apart the Sun
His love became old
Swimming snail seas
She walked the floor
I will tell of the decree
Never too late shining
Simple yet unknown
Dread became unwilling

A loss like slipping behind a sullen wall
Her anger
Checking to see what's what
Afternoon across an empty parking lot
And their flocks to hot thunderbolts
Also the heart
He never learned from is mistakes
Drowning in the temperature of pink

On gray days a spider thinks twice
Earth's geometry falling asleep
Love's warm mastodon touch
She rode on red flames of night
These days it's the best we can do
Sunday before last
Let their backs be continually bent
He swore and shot twice

She lived in a thin white envelope
That's what I mean
It was really
Dogs made of smoke in the sky
Hailstones and coals of fire
Inside the clock kept ticking
A thick round door
His fear flowed like minutes

Caring and uncaring
She heard water ticking
His game was proclaiming
Loving and unloving
With God turned upside down
Matter and antimatter
Every one of them has gone back
This time that song

Morning became an exercise
Her eyes saw into her brain
The rock of truth lost in a yard
Sun light sprayed by a garden hose
Long before he could tell time
Winged birds as the sand of the seas
California willow living alone
Against the wall they all died

Planted in trees of sleep
The car made doughnuts
Everything will happen someday
He cheated death again
Their soul fainted in them
Hills rows green no basements
It took a while but she made it
She cried without showing

Branches couched in mourning prayer
He prayed for secret lightning
Surf tumbling on lips of prayer
But I am in prayer
Her prayer became a dream and back again
Moon in silent prayer
Daylight praying for night
Darwin's house cat praying

Cloud hatting a cowless hill
Give the command to save me
Underneath the cells of a smiling worm
They looked for hours
He nodded unconsciously
Pool table in an empty room
Street jigsawed and disintegrated
She sought the unusual lord

He will save the children of the needy
Stalks of never ending wheat
Her dreams rolled like tape
Gray trees like flags dying
In the summer of 1367 the moon
He worked at night
The fire spread across the road in a flash
Glass breaking like an idea

He could only see so far
Afternoon moth with only one hour
She could only taste strawberries
No turning back for electrons
August could only be august
Only matter mattered
A hawk released by time
My strength was sapped in the heat of summer

Down roads of black in hot suns
Her dress spilled over the wind
Broken back of earth
Toads leaping pools of rust
He drove as a passenger again
Earnestly stopping for now
Cactus hair of many dead squirrels
I would lodge in the wilderness

Planets quarks and quasars
He twiddled his gold
Hello Kentucky baby
Streets of lost inertia
She patted her face
To the ends of the earth
Sunlight waffling a cloud
Forgotten obituary

Feminine sky embracing all air
He looked carefully down streets
A push of wind breathed autumn
So are the children of youth
She pulled back
Spanish plain reaching out forever
Soft butterfly furry
They never did recover

Stones of gray circling space
Leaves wrinkled not ready to die
On television a show ends
She’d seen it all before
He was none the wiser
Crushed paper cup holding all
There is the sea great and wide
Over the cliff a bee exploring

Gone in night's last light
A cascading series of ones and zeros
He simmered before deciding
Grace of rain on an inside shirt
They never change
Deer face sharp like money
Dawn came in patches of apology
Her blues and no calm

Afternoon flat as paint
She died the only way she knew how
Rain fell like butterflies diving
There was no end to it
Why are you disturbed within me
Wood turned to energy
The moon bought in a collision
He refused to look down

Her eyes betrayed by gravity
Shot like a dove caught on film
Rollercoaster spinning in a dream
Yes the set time has come
A madhouse losing ground
This minute
Around the corner in a city
He stoked charcoal into ash

In another man's town
The rough country never arriving
Fallen bee seeking forgiveness
His old lover in a dream
Butterflies three wallpaper layers deep
Her past allowed no bad endings
For in death there is no memory of you
Happy as a used car forgotten

Let them always shout for joy
Known as well as a hymnal
Raindrops jumping into pools
The orange caterpillar understood
Her necklace was a bargain
These words from the inside
His confession was verified
Cheese it the cops

A choice hammer in the sky reseeding
Born of aged confusion
Curved crusading topologies of cups
Both small and large animals
Intuition escaping in a mall’s yellow cone
Points parading with Euclidian pride
She practiced the iconography of love
He saw to it

The police arrived in full prayer
For a price God would appear
Nettlesome the sins of the poets
I believed therefore I said
Her faith clung like an unruly dress
Stationary a hawk sermonized the field
He thought only September could be so cruel
Belief dwindled like the hope at the start of every novel

Hatred ran like spilled coffee
Down lines of screaming mosquitoes
Who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood
He ran without feet
After ten o'clock on a street in Scotland
She withheld her voice
After dinner the sparks fled
The Sun worked in the background

Hermit crab in a difficult sleep
He felt the catastrophe of consciousness
Water waits and seeks more
Glass breaking in molecular grace
She fell in and out of love
In mourning came the dark malingering sky
The fool has said in his heart there is no God
They smoked and then returned to work

Sun and the Sun’s echo
Mice and the earth below them
He and the very thought of leaving
Peanuts and butter
The world and those who dwell therein
Her and her own
Moon and the shadows night
Think and make sure you do it right

Never ending sidewalks converging
It’s high time we did something about it
She was sullen as faded graffiti
The thoughts of everyone still alive
They have all gone aside
A wish crossed the cat's unruly mind
He kept everything hidden in two boxes
In the west awaiting the already arriving Sun

He walked out onto the Earth
Stingray mops the ocean floor
Don't let the foot of pride come against me
Her stiletto cracked into a million pieces
Pre-human toe found in a well
Stop the sky standing still
Well-formed paw prints in a suburban park
Alright don't take another step

Plain geometry folding and unfolding
August blowing sturdy as a credit card
He was connected to the deep green past
She danced on tenuously moving feet
Behold the angel on Main Street
At Normandy neurons firing wildly
Your years will have no end
September's tree exalting in pale fire

Cars of traffic and sometimes gray skies
Her practical face masked a caring heart
My cup runs over
At 4 a.m. a car skidding off
Off the coast a lobster trap waiting
His breathing continued through the night
Words spelled as songs remembered
Winter wins and immediately loses

Is
She is
I am yours
He was sent away
Curves were rounded in space
Dawn was slowly losing its balance
Photons caught bounding on the desert floor
The time had finally come to forget everything

Under the covers of love
She was found guilty
It's all in a day's work
Extraordinary roaches silently breeding
The rocks are a refuge for the rock badgers
Unable to cut the day's tightening piano wire
He was all he could take
You think you lost your love

Costly were the mice at night in the pipe
He thought it over 134340 times
A child disappearing into the ceiling
She drew up her lips
In a little café on the other side of the border
Lyrical moss like a half-written horse
They sing among the branches
The decision was made and everyone left

Scampering in droves of honey
September came with predicable results
Night of outside weeds and hot laundry
Turning so over and over
I'm telling you the man is a mystic
He no longer felt fully alive
Her smile faded into small cracks
Someone stole the cream cheese

Her dream bled into the day
Who covers the sky with clouds
Far away a train ignites
There were no traces of foul play
Indigenous though they were
He suddenly had no pockets
Drenched in end of summer light
You can call me el

So many
Were true
He tried
She saw
Now gone
In side
I shall
Be done

Examining the first tunnel
He obeyed electronic voices
Pride of stone lions
Along the way the two departed company
Keep pace with today's job market
She eventually saw her skin dissolve
The little hills like lambs
Surprised like a sudden dog

You have refined us as silver is refined
Blood caught in gravity's gaze
He was like music to his ears
Thousands of hours appear in minutes
She was now barely visible
Praise for God's forgotten
Yes I think it's time
Boom Boom June

He couldn't stop the light from shining
Pricked by the thorny crown of consciousness
She contemplated God's gauntlet
Give light to my eyes lest I sleep in death
A tireless slave of freedom
Still the ancients predicted everything would happen
A bird as far as any star
All along the relentless nuclear force

All my fathers loved there own way
Grocery bag between two people
Spider crawls outside the band of visible light
Downtown a theater totally destroyed by Martians
I will ask God my rock why have you forgotten me
He couldn’t say anymore
She spotted him from a distance
The puzzle piece that didn’t quite fit

All the houses
Now therefore be wise you kings
You’re all washed up
Her skirt swayed in the doorframe
Morning came joyless as a mute cricket
Revolutions of revelations
His heart gave into electrical and gravitational forces
Why was it exactly so

Even the Sun sat passive
Those days are gone
He made no secret of it
At 5:37 pm a mosquito feast
Dawn drew her hand back coolly
Let my prayer enter into your presence
She realized it was time to change her hair
God turned away his work completed

She swept away the crumbs of mercy
Guilty but not yet
Wanting to want to want
He sought ruth among the ruthless
Motives like fireflies in winter
Extol him who rides on the clouds
Silent came the never-ending night
Happiness to the passengers of days

The evening said end
He said I had a thought
Daylight said we'll do it tonight
She said I've had enough
I said you are my God
The street said leaves are coming
Noah said I’m not a hominid
Baltimore said my highways are alone

He saw light
A cock crowed
Sun burning
Odd bacteria behavior
She slept
In forty winters forgotten
You are my son
It was time

Going going gone
Quark gangs colliding
He gulped
She gasped
Gardener turning green
Hold them guilty God
Gracious the soaring gull
Give not your heart away

Licked by the underachieving tides
A minute later everything came apart
Her pants were full and warm
A toad taking dictation from a June bug
Mercy and truth meet together
Like music barely remembered
He was the owner of a stolen car
It turned out to be a hoax

Days gather in weeks of comings
A white fence ended near the road
Did you think it could be any other way
She was not dead yet
Purple squares inside yellow lines
My sins aren't hidden from you
He walked calmly down the exit ramp
Who wrote the book of love

Only afterwards
Proved elusive as old soap smells
Spider stuck in evolutionary pressure
Garages of stored truths
He spoke to himself in another language
The child merely had to cry
Her body had its limits and limitations
Honor your covenant

Just so
I'm fine
He laughed
Day long
You're kidding
She went
Never forget
Let's go

Her hurt was a size too small
Outside the wind brings rain
Afternoon arrived in time
Skies white as faded pages
He came to the conclusion
In the still of the night
They will be full of sap and green
Candidates spinning read light and blue

Night's candy melting in secret
She walked like nonexistence itself
Sun despairing its galactic arm
He rolled over dreaming
I hope in your word
Movie gun hanging on the screen
In a line back to Henry V
Words wrapped gracefully in skin

The end came again
He thought he was driving
Several snowy mornings brought clarity
A do wop piano laughing with steel teeth
Turn your ear to me
She kept her outsides to herself
A muddy road betrayed
Stars drawn by light attractions

Never one to be alone
In 1934 a radio playing softly
Serpent of the vaguely material
It was just a show
Don't abandon me
A highway taking its turns
She was polite but angry
His was the oldest pain

As secret as a steam at midnight
The stars walked away into the vortex
He held an island in his overcoat
Ghosts of dead cats rise above the city
Her perfume bottle with a little crack
The day is yours the night is also yours
I’ve reached the end of my rope
The manner stood against the gray rain

Locked in the jail of his dreams
An ice cube with hydrogen from the big bang
Soundless as a cell under a microscope
Hairless tree offering no resistance
See here now
She liked the thrill of white paper
From the traps of the workers of iniquity
This the eighth line

He was at odds
This notice is required by law
From now on
She held it all in
All the way home
They also sing
Meaningful meaninglessness
They also sing

She laughed like a square rolling down a green hill
In New Jersey a cell phone gives up its minutes
A thought coming to an abrupt halt turns left
Late at night the homes of crickets
Eyes of missing stars holding tight
You never close your eyes anymore when I kiss your lips
They have set up their standards as signs
His mind remembered the moon's smooth surface

Using money like time
Exploring and ignoring
He had his moments
Everything in an acorn
What became of the sky
I will not lie to David
If light were sound
She sang the forgotten

It flipped the median strip
The cell finally broke free
She walked away not knowing
1789
His dream ended abruptly
Let's break their bonds apart
Bees on the ground under leaves
A second's stillness after the shot

Shame abscessed the mourner's mind
Moons of rivals stopping the Sun
Who put the bomp in the bomp bah bomp bah bomp
My sin is constantly before me
His coffee disappeared in chocolate swirls
Guilt like rats scampering on subway tracks
Her thoughts never left her but only changed
Around the pool they had their last drink

Opening the door
Selling the clouds
Warming him
Turning around
Taking a step
Earnestly seek
Running the sky
Her sway

Little by little the dawns grew darker
God give the king your justice
He surprised himself with grief
A nod to the moon by planets in glee
She gave no quarter
City birds in gray cacophony darkly alight
'T was not so long ago
The few who survived were left for dead

Even pain
Falling around this dirt planet
Molecular exhaustion in cosmos of thought
Her bathing creating
His possessions composed
Tonight there will be no morning star
Garage moths accepting the light
Will you forget me forever

Godzilla contemplating Tokyo
Local joker’s emotions effusing
He he
Her her
Black and white and read all over
No curl in the unicorn's smile
In the minutes before time began
He who sits in the heavens will laugh

If rain then a spider in the attic
While running thickly in dreams
She had private properties
He stole a null kiss
Wend well the wind of all gray oceans
For each it would be different
Everyone into the bool
And Yahweh's word proved him true

Statutory time done in cells
Refrigerator hum like love's silent imperfection
Sun slinking its light fingers through September
Her heart was filled with oxygen
Before I was afflicted I went astray
He's alive
In the parking lot near the mall after work
Long in the grave a mother's kiss remembered

With dawn only a few days away
Held prisoner in a dumpster of glory
Her hat went around her head
Shining through all that backyard growth
The wood of his childhood bedroom
A nebular never the wiser
Longing for the spring of 1864
For in death there is no memory of you

He came to see things differently
The hour was invaluable and worthless
In the dream life of unconscious suns
She paused like a squirrel in thought
Beaches bathed in unseen light
Hello creatures of the surface of the earth
Play skillfully with a shout of joy
The tumor appeared without warning

Depart from evil and do good
Inside a vacant bar in Queens
Night came foolishly through the garden
He worked with machines
A few minutes after 3:00 am she awoke
The police had the place surrounded
God's invisibility shown through
How are we here

Sing-a-ling
Do your thing
You everlasting
He knew nothing
Some are something
Time is tying
Stones for flinging
She saw things flying

She only knew him old
Leaves falling down like 8th notes
What the hell's consciousness anyway
He looked distant
Trees stand while other die around them
How would you explain Vermont
I hate and abhor falsehood
Fathers like June sturdy and gone

He played a beautiful sideways line
Grasshoppers recall a photoelectric moment
Her moment was all of a sudden now
Whose leaf also does not wither
Now just hold on here
Circles of white eyes of night
Shuffleboard with a squirrel’s soul
What are you looking at

A morning newspaper arriving
She turns in moments red
Relevant as raindrops
His secrets whirled unspoken words
I'm going to make a prediction
Far off an oboe playing coarsely
Yes a God who has indignation every day
Following the gunshots in the basement

A store at the crossroads
His red car
Black squirrel with an acorn
She owned a velvet purse
All sheep and cattle
Delirious sound
A moth's small legacy
Roads without end amen

Nights connecting across the coast
Ants on ledges of dead steel
In her right pants pocket the keys
He made darkness his hiding place
Running free across the disappearing grass
I’m not going to put up with this anymore
Like rose firedrops falling in wood halls
The wine bottle held only the past

Recalling all cars
Intimations of morality
A time when tall meant small
She tried on a new pair of genes
The broker turned on a dime
It was all he could do to stop
Thereisnowebsitehere.com
My rock don't be deaf to me

Light as warm as cartoon mornings
Leaves falling accidentally
She would never say where she came from
Receptors reach across the synaptic chasm
He would be remembered for his eyes
Trees singing in spontaneous animation
So what version of the world say you
Your eyes saw my body

House hidden down a dirt road
So along came the winter wind weak and lacking punch
At night in the hotel of his loneliness
She walked away from everyone
Lightning bugs and the casualties of memories
His hands formed the dry land
Turn left at the next exit
This and that this and that this and that

Now wow
She cried dry like a baby
In October the rain’s acupuncture breaks new ground
Went away and came back
Wood crumbled in his hand
You are there
If I said it once I said it 1000 times
The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree

His father loomed large and vacant
There would never be a more opportune time
Why do you sleep lord
Miracles in the basement brewing
So long it's been good to know you
Gray defeating blue in skies of old summer
Her clothes all hung
They approached the bank with guns ablaze

Gone were the days of so many nights
But God is the judge
Trees on fire of tarnished gold
Rat beneath the city
So tell me what you are saying
Roads covered in confusion
She sold she sells
He toyed with ideas

This is all or nothing
His hands were tied
Streets of leaves befalling
Like a deaf cobra that stops its ear
She saw through them all
Time collapsed and remerged later
Steady as a bicycle lock
This is a stick up

Outdoors the oxygen played in the leaves
A rush of rooms
Her fingers on the buttons of her blouse
So this is the kingdom of heaven
He yelled uncle
Now in April a dog barked
Crawling and crawling into the wet ground
The valleys also are clothed with grain

Deleted by a computer key
He finally understood he didn't understand
Thirty miles from Edinburgh in the dark
Full of foaming wine mixed with spices
Sleeping cat caught in the dreamer's dream
Her laugh cut the morning lengthwise
Late season stream without fish
Let me tell you this is murder

How little skin really means
A moon in the Incan sky Friday July 26 1279
Where is mom
He stood for everything and nothing
Sun as cold as a distant father
She did it and that was all
Return you children of men
This will only hurt for a second

It's only a movie
True deception
Deceives truly
He was hers
She was his
You by day
Day by day
It's the only movie

I was mute
Stopping and stopping again
A hat in the winds of discontent
With the ensuing rain her world changed
It was you know like wow
He never woke up but once
Mice crumbs on the cold kitchen floor
Sun met by mourning

His intestines warm inside
Leaves and trees trapped and happy
Son born of man unknown
TV saviors radiate
Stars implode embarrassed by Einstein
She turned and said now you know
Ready set go
Surely every man is but a breath

How do you mend a broken heart
Lo in God's forgiving shadow
Her grief residing inches from her skin
Sunny days of polycarbonate delight
He never forgot 1520
A foreigner as all my fathers were
No tide like the present
Okay now it's every man for himself

Summer's fear of falling
Her blue shorts and the reddening evening
It was all the work of moving neurons
I will put my trust in you
Raccoons on the planetary ride
God knew it was wrong all along
He stumbled upon it by accident
Time and space wrestled in the great galactic groove

His nightlight still lit
Oceans of day's unwavering waves
We hit the jackpot
May it become a retribution and a trap
She sought the evening hours in towns
Mermaids defying green gravity's hold
Which word do you mean
Take aim and pull the trigger

Consider how I love your precepts
Wonder at her womanly ways
Think of those once living
Reflect the morning's photon party
Remember how he laughed and laughed
Ponder the four-sided triangle
Recall the hound's illogic
Rail against the skimpy real

Instant star farmer
Morning seen through an off-centered heating grate
She let it be known
Your money or your life
Let their way be dark and slippery
He never overcame the pain of awakening
What's wrong with you
After the funeral they all went home

Mr. Jones lying
Dead cat by the roadside smiling
He never stopped realizing
Molecules of air surviving
She held the fire of soft skin turning
Criminal to the crime returning
Inside the night a deer relearning
For my waist is filled with burning

A million years after the Sun’s demise
The am who I
Let the sea roar with its fullness
Amtrak dumpster with secret writing
He closed his eyes and everything became clear
1300 Walt Whitman Road Melville N.Y. 11747-3064 USA
That road you think of as night
She concluded it was an inside job

Green darkens the electromagnetic sky
The boy yes the boy
Horse in a horse trailer seeking the moon
The ball was round until proven innocent
He sometimes remembered her man tailored blouse
And a fruitful land into a salt waste
Come and get me
She finally came to her senses

Television showing the wasteland
Vikings descending Connecticut Avenue
Leaves breathe easy as August proceeds
He just lost control of the car
But you have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox
She secretly wanted him dead
The seventh line contained a typoe
Mansions gleam beyond the city's autopsy

Hands of bandages
Sundial telling time in another language
Her fear as she realized she was not alone
Their idols are silver and gold
Summer days wrestled loose from the ground
His heart pumped blood until it stopped
Spider setting up shop on the old antenna
You can run but you'll never get away

Day to day
He to she
She to he
Place to place
One to one
Ear to hear
Cell to cell
Want to want

This is no book
Empty wet streets and blown leaves
She returned to find everyone gone
Hurt deep in chlorinated pools of several summers past
He made sure this would not be another New York
On the way home the sky stopped breathing
Quickly fleeting they jumped the tiny neural gap
For I have seen violence and strife in the city

She's gone
Oh shit look out
Happiness prior to the domestication of matter
Autumn mists killed by morning's laser Sun
Give up there's no way to escape
He couldn't wait
The gun in the back of an underwear drawer
The days of our years are seventy

The moon and stars to rule by night
She slammed the door on her past
Toons at Noon
Take me to your leader
A thousand years later the child the mother
Drunk drivers and galaxies collide
They lost their life savings
He wept although he knew better

No chill but endless frost
Nursery vagrants happy suckers
Womb to zoom
Her face giving way to her skull
What are you doing
He watched the police drive away
The sadness of being 6 still ticking
Let the nations know that they are only men

Quietly persistent
The sister's unfairness
Dogs approaching cautiously
You are going to die
Her winter tears hid in snow
Days may be cloudy or sunny
Today I have become your father
He asked himself why

One moment turning two
The fall came with southern fury
Break their teeth God in their mouth
He dreamt in rough patches stabbed by time
Uncertain whether Heisenberg sought a bomb
Just try and stop me
She descended the staircase nude
Sometime during the night the alarm went off

She wept for all to come
On the rocks the river's arpeggio descending
This was not supposed to happen
Disappointed as light betrayed by gravity
He put up no argument
Let your glory be over all the earth
The warm bedrooms of childhood deserted
All and all

Surprise in a shopping mall mirror
Getting into the car at 7:38
His parents didn't care for him
100 Galaxies 100 more to go
You number my wanderings
The Sun climbing down a naked pine tree
She looked up from her work
Own nothing and nothing owns you

Pairs of calcium sticks marching down the lane
She spoke fluent 16th Century French
A dream of God awaking
The princes of Zebulun and the princes of Naphtali
He hid his song singing
Down the bus electrons streaming
Are you insane
The world's cold and beautiful soup

He never cried in sorrow
On roads of never endings
She never heard the story
Never came the rain
Never the less
Never right
Never never land
They shall never see the light

Knowledge is a floor of matchbook splinters
Fear came cutting through sheets of plasma ice
His mind bounced out of the meeting room
Hells of lonely hours troubled and television like
Time made a bumpy landing
Memories echoed gray swerved and disappeared
Her realization bubbled over her cranial flask
Errors arrived in pressed white lace

Jabs of jealousy
Late afternoon cattails meet the dirty river
I hate him
Don't touch that dial
He left a blank
Help me if you can I'm feeling down
Let your saints shout for joy
She spoke for the last time

Stones of cold
Her pearls
Cakes of snow
The waters saw you God
He dreamed of murder
As rain fills the desert
Small creepy planet of wonder
Sing sing

I fade away like an evening shadow
She was out there somewhere
Don't
A cloud in winter taken aback
Last in a line of well connected quarks
He knew the gig was up
Anger chased sadness into a hole in the backyard
You don't go to a gunfight with a knife

Midnight fell like a closed stone
Another hour thought the squirrel
She still had a good 10 years before hitting 50
This minute here this minute gone
He did not doubt the Sun burning out
Where are you when my warm head is dead
The bullet arrived with all its atoms intact
Boxes of Corn Flakes standing like God

She whispered words of the dead
Police patrol the conformity of night
You the machine reading this
He spoke his mother's tongue
Christ almighty
My name is Jack and I live in the back
Never the same person
Fire devoured their young men

Moondog in heaven
He looked like a Bill
The day came when the Sun eviscerated the Earth
She brought her chemicals to the room
Closing a beheaded spreadsheet
You who live forever enjoy
God has gone up with a shout
Sorry kid this is not your night

She was almost home
Let your glory be above all the earth
December arrived like a stopped clock
The end is near
He saw the past in everything
Winter sky filing cabinet gray
Bones and water and blood and iron
Alright nobody move

Television examining an empty room
He went into neutral
You open your hand
A tuna can rolling off time's unmemorable cliff
Energy shames history's embarrassed narrative
She held on with all her might
Each gas station disappeared forever
It's the hair and skin especially the eyes

Seeing is believing
He felt his breathing
Earth goes evening
She had a feeling
Leaving and relieving
Cheetah came cheating
Moon caught pulling
They have hands but they don't feel feeling

Lord open my lips
Scabbed winter tree scrapes a subway car
She mystified everyone with the movie outside her eyes
Self-importance like a bright black hole
The killers drove across the Colorado night
He remembered only five things from that time
That'll never do
Tell me about it

In an hour time would stop
Anger dissolved a mental map of Broadway
Let my adversaries be clothed with dishonor
His false teeth truly chewed
The cat and an imaginary canary
She destroyed the universe weeping
The tug of the Sun tugging the Sun
Where were you when everything happened

In pain
Her mind became her spirit
Rows of rooms cleaned of animals
He liked fast cars without steering wheels
A string pulled the plane exploded
Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them
They're growing tired and restless
You'll never get away with it

No matter
She mattered
Matter of fact
Mattered to him
States of matter
Mind over matter
Mattering
What's the matter

You reader of minds
You he cried
You who knows what I'm thinking
You she thought to herself
You sons of men
You Allen Ginsberg
You Walt Whitman
You put your hands up

The am who I
Sunrise on a crumb of toast
He left his computer on
You who ride the stars have never known flesh
A broken CD on the street like an island
Her diamond heart evolving
The fire shall scorch their faces
Just now waking up to how bad they're living

She walked in circles with light feet
Characters strung along on string theory
Am was my someday I
This is a people that have passed away
His closet evolved in a series of hangings
What did they mean to the enemy
You who never knew me
God spent the day gazing at a numb deer

Typing with the cursor pointed at hell
His memory of that day broken at the edges
You murderer of Cro-Magnons
As pretty as she was she never pulled it off
This indeed is an unjust division
New houses near the urban woods night
My I in high was damned to am
God drove off without paying

Who too
He wore his greed like a hood ornament
You obedient to the laws of physics
She asked herself how much
Inside the envelope a million molecules chattered
Stars in dark corners curse the cities of the east
Gardens beneath which rivers flow
Dum Da Dum Dum

She took the money
You with disappearing ink for blood
On the corner with a cup of coffee looking up
Come and listen to my story 'bout a man named Jed
The approaching day approaches
December clouds weighing options
He stood for nothing
Morning frost like robbing a bank with toy guns

Am I
She wasn’t
It wouldn’t
He didn’t
Or couldn’t
You know it
Be so
Oh no

He said I am who am
She said God said that
He said I come to naught
She said I'm not saying that
He said you who live forever
She said I live in the days of the end of sayings
He said 'nuff said
Allah rewarded them on account of what they said

You who
It was time to come clean
Inside he was all liquid
Goodbye cool world
Waking up felt like 1917
She picked up a pen and said farewell
Am as I was
And evil is the resting-place

Rock unmoved by its experience
I I I
His poems turned flat
Nay it is a reminder to him who fears
Looking once she saw double
You in North America before written language
Sunny positrons dance in drunken array
Dreams of speeding along in a stolen car

You of the dazzling days
A driverless car losing control
Forgotten but still remembered
He flew off the cliff of consciousness
I am I am not
She became inpatient with her indecision
Balls of atoms following order in a gum machine
We do not know the interpretation of dreams

Eye yam
She pretended to be a real person
Streaming cells inside a stick shining
Tonight's lineup on a TV in a morning sports bar
He followed the footprints of the living
And they have a crime against me
You in Rome with Edward Gibbon
Take it or leave it

Is it to go
Am I
She questioned the waiter
Wind like a jailer asking for more time
And in the morning they asked forgiveness
He looked for no reason
Want a receipt
You asked for it

His scarlet spotted jaguar
Night descended on the freedom of moths
The sun and the moon subservient
You're gonna say you love me too
Am not
Her wish ran away with the spoon
Subway riders bouncing off each other's eyes
For this you get the chair

What are you dreaming
He woke up between two dreams
You who know how stone works
Snow fell like emails from the sky
Rain rethinking the night
She held her pain between her teeth
Am way
Mountain bring me a dream

She looked like her
Land of the T home of the V
Gone in the flicker of a network card
You out there
Old loves like February leaves
He looked around an empty bathroom
Come into our house with the fragrance of cedar
I came to

Mad I am
Are mad
Our mad
He's mad
Dad mad
Her madness
Deep sadness penetrates my core I fear death
You mad lad

Take this
His time had come
I I who have nothing
Moon rise like an old hurt coming to a boil
You became extinct before you could remember
Tribes of ideas clashed and left out the window
She frowned like a night in March 1942
The tavern-keeper was gazing off into the distance

An ice shelf breaking free
A night losing its footprint
A song in his pocket fading
A new you
A line in her sand
A fate that will never come to an end
An am becoming I
A way out of here

Underneath an urban grate
She saw it all at the speed of light
You in the spring of 1215
His car repossessed by the second law
I am only
Turned to blackness all that had been light
They stood up like a bank of television screens
Beat it

Everyone has a phone
Only ones and zeros are eternal
He looked up to see a machine gun firing
Suddenly the summer rain
You who see me in security cameras
Who who who
If any one steal the minor son of another he shall be put to death
She's always a woman to me

Surfing waves of light
The olden days have alas turned to clay
Am Fm
She drew on time's invisible canvas
Later an empty glass of water
He felt his mother in his belly
You grinning on the Antietam battlefield
I'm telling you for the last time

Me me
Mankind is deceptive
Blues blew in clouds in time
His love suffocated in bruised boxes
She spoke on phones of lilacs
You whirling molten core beneath us
Like night forgives the Sun
So what's the story

His truth was false
As quiet as stars exploding
January like a dream erased the year
Have I the right to hold you
She never realized it was the last reel
Let 'em have it
The weak brought whatever else was needed
You with the stars in your eyes

A diamond in a mine
You two
Three days after the funeral
Java update available
Sometimes he felt great
She lost her shape
I'm a yes ma'am
We're millionaires boys

Wham
It wasn't the airplanes
She cried in pink square circles
We stand for eliminating the past
He stood at the door walking
A decision like a coastal storm arriving
I’ll pretend I didn’t see that
You should know better

And the red light was my mind
Old Earth spins on even older gravity
Am a ram
You genetically designed tiger
Her sadness like an electronically dialed call
He felt like an atomic clock
We'll teach him fear
Time keeps on slippin' slippin' slippin'

You rascal you
Stones beneath the weightless world
He thought only of himself
Eyes of I
Forgiveness brushing rough through neural paths
She danced alone to an inaudible song
Shot in the foot by an empty revolver
That's what I'm talkin' 'bout

I was there
She stopped for a second
American association of ideas
You wood
These words disappearing
He was just an actor with a gun
Cold as history
Got it

Rain from heaven
Love arrived in angry solar flairs
She called her shellfish Jean
Early morning snowflake suicides
Alive in the Iamosphere
Everything gone forever
You highly evolved chimp
He beat the rap

Small i
Winter's gray breath from outer space
He saw it with his own I
You think you know everything maybe so
The stuff that dreams are made of
Tangles of live wires sizzled on the subway floor
Her broad smile eclipsed her death shadow
Keep your paws off me

Am ex
You next
Her neck
The next voice
You here
Hey there
Next time
His next car was a lemon

His secrets strangled his eyes
Monday night turning left
You of the never returning moment
Clouds bent like God’s knowing frown
She dreamed like a clock at 6:15
They played cartoons all morning
Firefly thinking they’ll never take me alive
I don't sell human beings

Who
You with green remodeled eyes
Masses dancing squares of distance
All ships come in
Friday night winter stop sign
He asked the butterfly not to come back
Gonna shoot my Gatlin gun
Her days were numbered

Day oh
I am days
Days of a cell
His best days ahead
You whose days know no end
School days
Her days
One of these days

You world brain
He looked funny
Starving for hunger
Let there be night
Her dress unraveled
Breasts of sky over land
Am tired
This ain't no mud club

Pythagoras playing F#
Her stony imaginative way
Everyone who died last night
His lips went up in smoke
Seeing was disbelieving
Am not on this page
If any one take over a field to till it
After a while the atoms split

He needed to be said
Alone at night in a yard of busses
A day burnt around the edges
God beholding greens of miniature golf
You on a sheep mound in Australia
Her feet were made for walking
I believe I'll dust my broom
Just who do you think you are

You changing thing
Yaba daba doo
She used to know what day it was
Sadness like a telephone pole turned inward
A cat thinking about electricity
His memories in shards of glass
I'm telling you now
Get outta here

Pre am
Pre literate
Post her
Post back
Pre cursor
Post no bills
Pre he
You post literate inhabitant of Mars

Who do
Her loneliness in a glass of shampoo
Bedroom dust and sweat
To understand than to be understood
He was a tube of tubes
You in the spring of 425
Urban deer run through empty houses
Is the gun loaded

She finally woke up
Negative particles dissembling
I lie
Inside liver quiver
You who speak without language
He thought thank you God
The deceased adoring a heart
This is not a hyperlink

Sunshine killing urban snow
She eloped with God
Down concrete stairs of gold
I am am I
Fred Astaire night and day and beyond
He believed in death after life
You who threw the YooHoo out the window
No sir I don't mean maybe

You in disguise
He in his addiction
Field mouse in a cat's gray mouth
I in Suns of butter
Light in waves of sparkling particles
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
Her in finite skin unfolding
In time it would perish from the Earth

Amazing
It meant giving up the immortal for the eternal
He saw the night becoming
This is how the second part began
And there was a day
You were always on my mind
She held hands with lightning
Cats skipping as frictionless as worlds

The eyes have ears
Blue of day atomically dying
She saw the value of light
You once so green
Where the light is as darkness
He was afraid of the dark
Stick it where the Sun don't shine
I saw American night

Six of the soldiers
She lost her afternoons long ago
Another radiant day
The vehicle blew up
You who curdled me like cheese
Life here has become impossible
He was always carefully coordinated
Alright nobody move