Marriageing

The zest of this new marriage is sex and the smoke pouring out of the both

of their mouths after it.

And the dirty socks, still piling up, day after day until a new pile of dirty socks

is all that is left.

Children's Orchestra

Musical education turns out not to be

a fundamental right, but the adherents

these half-pints, wrong-side-of-the-tracks

brown kids in this orchestra of light, 

wrack heads, wash thoroughly and invent 

their own camaraderie of spite. 

In Mary Doria Russel's 'the Sparrow'

the Jesuits are an overwhelming force,

but these kids die to illuminate life—

gun violence being such a rampant problem

in the poorer districts of Puerto Rican cities.

Frontierism

Who so
concussed in
absentia as this
great wide scrubbrush bush
waving
under an equally undulant sun

as the movements
of the tumbleweeds
or dust rescind, take back
the movement from the meaning.

The lactic dross of dustfields
crosst, frontier homes strapped
together with no loss of sweat
of reams of splintery
slackwood beams and planks and
torn back down again and again
as haphazardly reconcstructed and
again deconcstructed and again.


Jangle and hoop of the no
wife in tow and the no children
on the popping sloop piled
high with the house that moves
and the nights too without them
and the night too.