Here comes your heart attack
Starless and bible black
And here is the endgame
Lightning flicks down again
Back in the wilderness
And inside of the sanctum
In the flutter of an eye
In the holler of a gull
Light streams through incisions
You lie down in the weeds
Sky ripping at the seams
You draw blood with the reins
Pulling out your jackknife
At lifelike figurines
Wake in a dark hotel
Archangel Gabriel
Unbound, unholy
And free
God lives only in the mind
But in the mind it is alive
And to feel and believe otherwise
It is natural
That’s no reason to cry
If one could only understand
All this speaking
All the little boats rising
Encephalons
Ranging through time
You’re wrong
You’re right
That’s no reason to cry
You won’t look in its eyes
And words don’t come easily
You’re wrong
You’re right
Where does your mind go?
How do you fall in step
With all this speaking?
What did you expect?
A crowd
Only wants one thing
And answers like an ocean
While the night
Circles around the day
The question is
How do you fool the mind
You fool the body
What’s in the box
In the back seat
And dial down the senses
Flares
As far as the eye
Can believe
While the night
Circles around the day
The first time I saw you
We barely connect
We sleep on the subject
Slip on the mask
Of ugliness
Nothing is missing
Or seems out of place
Enter the object
It’s a ride
Alone
With ugliness
Walk into traffic
Or catch yourself
A sudden shiver
From underground
Dig ye dig ye dig ye
Low
And fortune favors
The undertone
Of ugliness
Offer him something
He’ll never return
The lack of all respect
The lives underneath
This ugliness
And down in the market
It’s a race
Back
To domestic
Hollow restlessness
Walk into traffic
Or settle down
A sudden shiver
From underground
The hollow feeling
The yellow sky
And fortune favors
The bigger lie
Of ugliness
Offer me something
I’ll never return
The end of all respect
The lives
On the brink
Of ugliness
Endlessly rustling
Talk
And don’t pause for breath
Everyone coming here
Looking for someone else
Watching them
Tearing up the tracks
Along the line
Mirror ball standing in
For galaxies of light
Jump in that opening
Looking for signs of life
Follow dead reckoning
Kneel
And then stand again
Feeling like every consolation
Is a lie
Nothing is out of reach
But everyone you touch
Melts away
Turn your back
Against the evidence
Will you tell me now
How is this benevolence
If you recall
You better look around
Caught you sleeping
Enough of this sad
Dreaming of country life
You hang
Over the side
Of the breezeway
Nothing is said
Only the brightest rays
Pierce the tired eyes
You know what you need
While the sun
Burns through a lake of ice
But there’s no real change
And that’s why we know
This is over now
And what have you done
What have you learned
From all these stubborn people
It doesn’t bear thinking
When you look at it now
When it’s all against the needle
I couldn’t believe
You were never ashamed
And if it’s never too late
Why are you so resigned?
I’m saving the date
Tonight
But isolation
Is insatiable
Go on marching in
Through the snow
Crisp and even
In constant light
That shifted from its rest
Cannot be replaced
The long rays
Down the sides
Of your arms tonight
And what have you done
Where can you live
When it’s all against the needle
Constellations all
Go on fading out
Once more
Into the morning
I was never ashamed, you said
I was never ashamed
Sift through
What’s shining
Watering down the weeds
I think you enjoyed it
Look at him
He’s wrong
And he knows
He enjoys it
Warm bodies
Tungsten
Radium
Hexane
He enjoys it
As he severs himself
The door
Glides open
The door is
Shut tight
The ceiling
Is sinking
Isn’t it nice
Isn’t it nice
You were sleeping
I didn’t want to wake you
Do you remember
Everyone look at your hands
The sun came over the mountains
And when I looked back
I didn’t see anyone
Where do you come from
And where do you go
I think I
Was sleeping
Until the first
Of the day’s
Fresh demands
Hello hello
Hi hi hi hi hi hi
Then ride
To the sea
Then run
Through the cascades
As all of the sound
Falls away
A crack in the shell
Held open
And glistening
And turned to the light
Dilates
And floods the iris
Unfurls the wave
Ride them up
In the threshing of love’s
Distortions and shimmerings
The stubbornest husk
Flakes away
And the dust
Rises up
When the sun is gone
When you’ve shown enough
When the silence waits
Who shows you in?
Under pallid skies
Endless traveling
All this rising
And receding
Uncertain soldier
Doubled in distress
Could you save yourself
Staring long enough
Will the clouds relent
And show
The moon
In strong relief?
Strung out
Or taken in
As the ocean sighs
So long
Oh, no, no
No
I saw you myself
Your naked frame
Clouded eyes
Lifted
Into the silence
cuckoo
cuckoo
I’ll never rise to the daily need
Never wrong or right
Never stick the landing
But never far behind
You’ll never break the joys away
From the moan and sigh
Far across the day
Carrying the hopes
Of a former life
That never fully died
Holding its shape
In your mind again
It overruns your eyes
Fills the storm drains
Start now
