delicately slightly gently

it deserves undue attention.
i see the way it works.
i'll spend an hour tomorrow
just talk talk talking.
to an unending impossible wave.
let's all just hold it together.
please never ask me to close my fist.
i wish it could keep getting longer.
but it fails.
i failed gray.
i failed in, and by, my shoes.
i failed because i am morose.
i failed in a critically unlikely grandiosity.
in the garden i appreciate and circu-ambulate the leaves.
if i could touch you with silver.
if i could deliver the sliver of hands.
to me you will never be an it.
do you hear me?
fa, and fa alike.

klunk and headed / drudge

what cuts and cuts
you open.
i'd give it spaces
and you'd give it two.
i want another way.
i want to stop walking like
the world is self-tied
shoes.
in a not so distant future
my parents are dead and i am
the parent, next.
click
clack.
oh you stupid
fool. i know
this is how we talk. i know
this is the slick
grey guts.
how do you
do you
find me.

in a once long while

i am black eyed mis
forgiven ice
against glass oh
god. how far
and narrow
the spit. and what
you'd ask
of me. circular
virginal
period. break me and
hold me back.