claustrophile

And the problem is the door
was alive. There was a hinge
in the door, and a mirror. There
was a girl. Was the girl
alive. Her gut contracting like
the mirror in seven years, she
is seven, pretend this
will be lucky. Could not
move her hands. Maybe she
was not allowed to grow
them. One later hand will
fall off. Reattach with ice and
spoons. The second problem
is she will live. The blanket
scratching her like fog. A pillow
in her mouth. Unsure
of mouth. Maybe more slash
than receptacle. Each word
had a taste. All she was certain
was she had windows
in her wrist. And cheeks were all
glass. Her forehead breaks
to sand like luck.

Doppler Mornings

1.

In Rome all roads lead from recliners, where if slaves pay taxes it's Tuesday, and wheels on
………sloops skid into radios that were never dyslexic;
It's broken bumpers in brown bags embroidered with apples, a banana in season, otherwise,
………fly half aisles, oiled pincushions, and corrugated bottles on the porch of cheap pails and
………carnival lions in tarnished freezers;
Coins don't fit in yogurt carts, so change the salt dough and rattles like Mariana kelp
………and filters, front teeth, tents in Michigan and steel mesh stocking chairs from a
………guidebook;
Barging rivers that aren't quills, there is danger in forgetting your plastic tray of heaped
………alphabets, as in chocolate twisted ants count as soy beans or doorways;
Each day you learn poker queens incinerated squirrels, like mango bars dip
………codes, baskets of horses, real or with rainbows, have threes hoofs bitten off in fractals;

2.

The rolling villanelle in Oakland
a whale a whale a whale
halting lemon ferrets
a whale
sealing or slugs or detrusors
the whale the whale
hunting grog and fly jars
bused-in lapping cheetahs
the whale the whale the whale
placenta palming berries
a whale
lysing peanuts for ascorbic castles
saccharine knotting research
the whale the whale
colanders beaching powdered popsicles
a whale

3.

Irene and
………the worms are untwined
and cores in the Miyagi
………………edamame served
………with miso are for high BP and

aqueduct
………drips in Henri IV's
………………revelation of leeward
lace for uneven
………barristers and wigs are for plastified cat

women in
………Alexandria
or cherry mall blossoms for
………………Smithsonian or
………pomegranate Ling-Ling skin beetles

on jagged
………candelabras and
………………spinning wheels for Calder or
chiseled horns listing
………thyme rosemary and keyhole manioc

tenses like mead
………without phyllo and
spinach lodged in tectonic
………………Von Trapps or oxen
………with Apple-pixelled graveyards without

incisors
………braying St Louis
………………leashes and albatross in eyebrows last June
………gnarled shoulders on signposts and Santas.

4.

One……… Six……… Ten

and twenty-four transducers

(at most)

5.

The right talcum Empire removes quasi-
zirconium, Dove—
dove-dove-dawn……… the world

impaled nail-beds
in mirrors. Imprints in
color. Floppy……… disks and no

more Italians if
rubber mortar can't
pulse the fermenting……… elevator

gumballs. "Lazy
cows and /…… or Talmud,"
says the scarf like "serendipity

and / or chalice." Submarines or
saloons……… and beaks………… and adobe not
drinking [no-names] insert

octopus. It's still early and
exams are over
with red malted unlike

the lintel……… no
broomstick this time
but trestles

incandescent and
meters unimmune
to blankets.