April 3 ^*

No: Theory of poetry.

The tall wander where the short fall.

The night is a bitter pear.

History invites us to grow or shrink accordingly.

Sequence of illusion.

Bright drop of illusion,

Bright drop of petal from the flower.

Sequence declines to consequence.

Bright pear of illusion.

Sequence implies consequence, which creates distinction.

Become “someone.” I am no one who are you

April 4

Theory of poetry:

If you write a good line in your sleep you are unlikely to remember it in the morning.

Dahlia heads too big for weak stems.

In the dust of jets,

The cereal bowl: empty.

Twin grapefruits, rosy in their bowl.

Call the hospital to make amends.

“Tap” in to a feeling.

Let the sadness in you surface

Let time—

The sunset is imagined.


Leaflets litter the floor.

Rooftops in summer, seen from a window in spring.

Don’t-force-the-issue

Don’t look now.

Windows in summer

Open open open

April 9

Watching metaphors rise to the surface of the water in the form of bubbles.

Like angels.

A tropics:

Wet leaves, wet vines, wet flowers, thick patterns of sound and silence, thick patterns of light and shadow.

To be diffuse in a jungle.

Diffuse in the color of noise.

Non sequential.

April 30

Liberated pansy.

As in, the flower, out of pot and in to field.

What kind of flower flowers in pot and field?

The paint is black.

So is the pansy’s center.

Central air is a luxury in summer.

In some cities.

Say we take a line of I

or Aye

Say anything at all:

Pansy, flower, pot, field, spade, kettle, center

Every course is off course,

of course.

A flower in every pot.

The pot calling the petal black.

In city stations, boughs of petals, rain, etc.

Shades of centralization.

This black umbrella to form a shade

To shade

My shade

From the rain

Which patters

In summer

In pretty patterns

On fields

Into pots

Watering

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