Learn the poverty of blackbirds
Spit a wet core in a trickle
The roll in nettles
Eat it wet with knives then lamb
With lentils in midlands on pastures.
Measure the salamander by
Bloodletting and the eel in the
Peel like peanut learn proverbs
Like poverty progressing
Unhappiness of the less
Fortunate few
Backwards
Lacking
Blackbirds
Birds
W-irds
mulberry mouth
the herb Paris of your voice
in the backest corner of the garden
"are these deadly nightshades or cornelian cherries
behind the consecrated
elder?"
mulberry
like once before I pick her and she
rims the mouth shrills a blue
bell in the dream we ride: small-me on the scooter
you on the stepboard jump on
and off
running board reason
my donkey child
you arise in the snow
I screamed in the monkey tree
the wind blew summer out of the fur
the world hit my disheartened
knee