Out To Dry

I walked on top of the slats They required much attention eggs stones They hung out wooden platforms so long past Hot and cold exercises The water hung onto my limbs storks clacking wildly their talk all soft my life hanging out to dry

Hands Elbows Knees

Could we walk above the Lake forever castle made of hardened sand on top of the olden cliffs where they sheltered excursions Lake's skin reeds marshes cosmos galaxies arrows pointing into the sky into the Earth what is bright worth noticing What is dull sifted compact dense cool fizz so hot folding over where we twin assist

Above The Marsh

Uhus nesting soft sandstone cliff planks creak the ravine unhurried Shade near boulders resting on top each piece alive even the spiders out to greet god with a sharp s I bathe my gerstenkorn ritual staccato I eat the butter pretzels and apples pressed to form an elixir surrounds me now leafy

The Immediate Past

Earth is an inhospitable liquid until exposed to the air lava life is short tense traveling until she dies She is looking at the land whales jump out of the ocean their eyes trained on the mountains Always stopping short before being caught freezing not the right word more like immediate past in a grammatical sense the way the body pumps after a gash

Thought Of

I thought of the apples and the soft coat like a bear hidden inside the basket just underneath where she found it demanding it back Was this the beginning or was it before when one little one a swollen neck the cure a mixture of wheat paste plants mixed in draining it on the outside how their mother cried so much tears running down her face even now what more can one lose this dark green life out the window all around

Account

Long list short life

Pitter Pat

Earth's thin skin. There in all the photographs all the other graphs exchanging trees for rocks sky eating smoke this green memory

Tell Me

Of the volcano explosions and ash bombs boulders thrown away far far away from here maybe soon there are facts discoverable later didn't it figure out another thing here see the best of things are there tasks remaining could this be the same

Darling Elevator

Secure the elevator before entering the pit somebody's got to keep standards the cold case will not be true otherwise let innocence life strikes twice inside the strange game my check outside about fifty dollars per day after taxes look out Well now those three ladies just where I work here like H.R. That's about it a car instead before and after why historic renovation instead of plain

Swing

Wake up owl shine your eyes on this world happening without you even though you scratch into the dealing so how