08 July 2011

We Quite Mean

Not the full bell. Yes
okay the full bell.

One good one left, which
was a honed one once

wither the hand's watch.
Not due liberty, not

off with the fringe that.
Congeniality attendant.


Recidivist of the heart,
nonesuch sustainable

as the roof, no paper
or draught, no kidneys,

ovaries, lungs, thumbs.
We quite mean, love.

More bad olives, and
pretty sure picking

through clavicle thinner
on the left than it once was.


To the seafaring life:
not. Not yet, at least.

We rise: swell. Fall too.
Night gasp, whole chest

a sweat slick. Detritus
of one room life, time left.

Stones and staves,
a place with no hallways

but ad hoc rooms attached,
differentiated ceilings.

Stone, thatch, styrofoam
tile. I accrue a lot, like

everyone, such that I
have got more than I need

to leave this high school
of infinity, and yet do not.