You Know I Can Sleep Anywhere

These parts are no longer important

the secret tiptoes once again

like an intrigued stranger

over the fresh greenery of photographs

never expelling the bright ambient

I never said mother lightly

But the rest of what I have said

has lightly fallen like dander

or blush or the thinking that something will

come out of it

This is also about the couple dinning

alone in a castle which I have said

nothing about.

and the body

in the diamond sleep
of the glorious downstream
the cottage swimmers
remember a brilliant forgetfulness
open dampers
of filmiest parcel
in kitchen savannas
the reed gaze
squandered penumbra
do tell mask
and cheek summons
brown hangovers
dinner skirts
contemplate the clever
placid apologies and
carousel alphabets
from the equatorial treetops
ponytail quinces
clover burn
water loner
and puts the sky dress on

Apartments and Houses

Our heads feel so warm
we might want to cancel
the electric

In fact

When the stars burn out
I just might cancel it all

And grab the books of poetry
from the bag

from my trunk
I bought at the church sale

In fact

They might help me predict

the place
before my body catches up
to my body

before your body
catches up
to mine.

A starry body slipping into a white dress and disappearing

The past
definitely tomorrow
like a blue savanna
proves it has nothing

to do
proves it has nothing
than await
The past

proves in the shadow of
the past
before morning
to do

the sleepiest thing
to do
who knew
proves in the shadow

you always dreamed
proves in the shadow
not anything
the sleepiest thing

not anything
the sleepiest thing
other than the secrets
you always dreamed

it had nothing
you always dreamed
during the retelling
not anything

to do with you
not anything
during the retelling
it had nothing

like a blue savanna
it had nothing
other than the secrets
to do with you

Pulling Off The Face

You know

today

I have been pulling off my face

With my hands turned and my fingers clenching

at the corners of my jaw bone

I pulled as if pulling off a mask.

With two hands I tried.

I tried my mouth, my nostrils, the corners

of my eyes...I tried the reaching down

to the back of my neck.

I even tried breaking it down

by tearing an ear, plucking a lash

pulling from my brow,

rounding my finger through a blemish.

I know you barely understand

me.

You Know Who You Are

A sudden atmosphere
like some early evening revealed
so we may know
the voice and the meaning behind it.
And I do not know if every word
hides or clarifies this jungle of waves
or this darkness is just a feeling
in the movement of my own.
Or that the truer story
is built in a nice restaurant
with expanding umbrellas
on the different sand
in our toes and under our feet
the same as love.

Memorable Quotes

This morning
I was thinking of a poet
If you think hard enough
you will think of him too.
A cookie then congenially
caught my eye
and I bit it
like an ancient philosopher
tasting his last
before sitting under a tree
and beginning to think blossoms
for the rest of his life
It was on
the dark blue floor
and I thought
I was plucking it
from an angry sky.
Paris is a good topic for poetry
one can imagine
if one hasn't visited
even remotely
or have tasted the air
and the coast of Maine
can serve the same purpose
except that one becomes regional
and ripe with the landscape
And the painter
who thinks he can make a living
selling the paint
that he has thrown up
upon the page
might think
this is a funny job
That makes me think
of the poet again
No one thinks
of Emerson much aymore
only the fact 
that he was confused
at sixty
remains