ruins so much
once it can say
the simple and was so
...
once with like
once with must
marked elsewise
beyond deceit even
isn't evil
but none, no
truth but isn't
if once could say
From the unpublished collection, "Jiggerweed:"
Dust in Leo
1.
In morning
frost all over an oven
where devils play
perhaps the fingers
are each swirl
an other becomes
the lovely mirror
leaned close
fell in
tubing
crystalline to ice
dead moth
stutters the flame
2.
getting older right
is a quiz show
chirp answers to the hour
but lapses in time
a trace
not of self
a mirror dimmed
by breathing
concave light
album by candlelight
frost slime
of our Prague
pendant
penance
stay low
vitriolic coffee
in the mouth
3.
turn impassible not to
mirror returns the gaze
there is it where night
an aside of the tower
shrinks to a human form
an actual pile
on snow of wood tips
three summers’ cut ago
no new tract
on clean up
a phone call
blackens town
