Trails borne by somewhere being elsewhere nudge me
contemplatives out of pasture at the river elegantly
overtaken by river
beyond the shadows patience deems sky
bird and blue theory for the night
guise as guile trigger
I cannot follow
this back and forth firmament gone wild is my head
waterfall and cliffs landscape I have come into
grinding direction testing chance
ceded by the job of dreams
the flow ambush to hope
down here we’ve got butterflies and terrace
the oak tree and change of seasons
pomegranate seeds crimsonly
seated in Kekule design
keen on rapture
morning rendering itself emptied of limbs
fog and sky immediacy and sheen
a whole now astonished
wanton glitter
the crane of the sky has returned to sky
motherland mossed into heartland
tracking nocturnal caves
I sail by
sail by April by love by flock or herd
beckon at chance and other whispered graces
below turns and facets reminding me of self
below the aesthetic or smart of syllables
clothing my captivity
what cherished color gender country
trigger and front-end positions
root below tune and cloud
what named us
Mihran to Merwan to Merwin
justly civic and passionate
pulse barrier/ carrier
remember the old man who vanished in the night
talking to himself without looking at you
something never yours fragrant
walking you buffing you
remember turning blind and daybreak as artifact
the river and ridges your frequencies shifted
how you felt and happened on that
ana baba gun day
to have had that is rune ethnography
moment to moment living your death
roar into laughter and beam expansion
pressure reduction/ equalization
laugh off and away the brackish landscape
kingless birdless darkened apple you
morning frost greets scintillated
hyper odd still magnet red
lushly into crimson
measurement apparatus information
trust that better noted pitch and overtones
perceived nag as when stressed
numbers thing data
naz to douz
provide
meaning matter
figure of merit unlike phonology repositioning the ear
the self the body your smart dust depends on
balancing acts over notes
around the spatial
the unspeakables
tighten them to stretch/ close to open
the work gliding the works
just as only justified
nasal to vowel.