—

 

 

In                                               operable.

 

 

Begin to                                     begin to           fray.

 

 

Outside, the social                     thickening
(when were we younger).

 

Botched train; struck
man.

 

One everyday                            everyday
refrain.

 

Freight of your
winged body.

 

Absolution
of all your sins.

 

                                                  We the fatherless.

—

 

 

Rifted, we return from the new             hospital.

 

Once again, a neat                                          
barbarism                                              gone wrong.

 

Young jays ransack                                                     
the understory.

 

Pending trial.
 
Whose                                                   testimony.
Whose                                                   scrap of democracy.

 

Undoing the ascetic:                              nearly

impossible.