As competition bangs like a dumb blind

hammer’s head to ward stone

In its lifelessness a marble rose screamed imploding odes

to oblivion Nevermore croaks Poe’s manifold tulpas reciting

slant rhymes in ice

Trembling lakes of consciousness look toward heaven’s correct

aloof-

Ness… broadening a brush yoke in the stroke of righteous

singularities

Scratching monkey grunts

Jungle of tense semantics crowding

Electrical

Knowledge of mind-connection lost in a labyrinthine mechanical

jigsaw-

House of slow assaulting pleas of presence to be palliated

with whiskey oiled gun night cigarette shadows and smooth

silhouettes

slinking linguistic lips

To milk far things and draw them to ward the parchment law

sorcery skins taught

Riddles of Celtic cliche puzzles of lilt ting brassy hells sound

the corporal’s slap