Watching Television News
Intercontinental
drift, very light computers, and the sense
that I’m willing to put my hand very close to your
hand despite the chance it’ll lead to an inextinguishable
volley pervades
in handshakes, danglings, and the loosest
needle threaded through the exchange of the determinable coin—
before preparing my first duck l’orange, I scratched my
income into a pink sheet encircled with bowed duckies: when I
hear the word decoupling I
think of angels falling from the sky
desperately trying to release each other, and in rows it seems the
plosives
determine
their own course: opposed
Palladium plentitude plove puppy—
guests focus in on just one aspect of the large graphic displaying corn
production, pricing, and prediction; that must be why they table three
of them,
each bottling their own descant counter-melody with
a just a tap on the counter: call it making a point or
self-humdingering or infantos or ensuring their own insular arc
:
call it what your
entire body
pursues in space when it
laughs—this is your water, you are free, the bottles seem to
say—do not cover your head or rub your eyes, Formica and soy
can still both be forgiven, churchgroups do not really ask too many
questions, and you have not been reduced to whistling: but the entire
team has arrived and they saved a quenching beverage with your name on
it, and in that all the trouble starts right up again:
before you open it, your hand encounters an incredible
strength and manages to overcome with the full (true) physiological
knowledge such a victory will lead only to, in your newfound stretch,
the ability to channel, gild, and warn with each of your
hands: these acts in constellation might be your only
qualifying qualities
you understand, but the way you subordinate
that strength
touched that spot on your arm, as though you simply forgot
that for your entire life it has been covered in very fine
hairs,
I imagine that goes on to become not a feature but the
catalogue
of all future and potential strokes
Weekly Outdoor Classical
Music Concert in an Unnamed Municipal Park
I start a bag of muscles content calls into the stream, attracting
radicals with the tinker of my applecart.
Nothing beyond the individual builds in the singular, so I trademark
our listen whole again, platforming repairs the long hour, whether
there is or is no relevant stroke to make.
I will not tell you that you can see this century (out there, floating
in the common goat milk, progress tipping toward the end of each
decade) because I haven’t really been alive yet and not at
war.
This is just my crowd.
I have several instruments performing this limitation, widening unable
as I speak.
I can make a whole other sentence: putting the thinnest good forth so
both moving and encroachment surface, terminal impasses at a line that
senses and destines a composed loosened— I’ll do
this from time to time because I love to feel it ripple.
You always
cuts the import.
Hello, I say, my name is part of my wooden hand getting to know
you. The crack in my upholstery button is a thread loosed. We
must trust each other; must we trust each other.
The corners seem to stay very wet. The clock silent dot on the tent.
One makes a connect frank. Time to continue and forget outlines cut at
fancy triangles. Fancy is still just a two-color machine.
We are so young together, maybe we can sink my feeling that this is how
stones hot not just the whole untangled wilderness, where smoldering
uproots the under-nosed finds and there will be more quickly than
boulders stopgaps like fine wool.
Degrees have always been less important to me than mercury.
Someone’s ice fruits across the skin. A tree bend is a long
pounce like the surface of a party owns surface outside of herself and
upwards returns the twinkle any harbors confirms in drops. So easily,
just up ahead, in the hysterical forsythia we could stretch our second
feet out across the uniform texture we’d accomplish in law.
Of course by now everything comments on my new idea but this is just a
place to stop in a place to take my place.
I have had this problem with picnics.
Even event contraptions erect correction teeth.
I love you and I cannot stop saying that not to matter how I tried I am
hard.
I wish I looked more square in a way that first cartoon idea of the
messenger did.
I fear what you did for me is tonal at best.
Sewn down the line like notes across a music-box wheel end-stuck in the
sand.
Sand moving fast as a fleeting lip.
Waves tidings undulating fineness quick-blurred.
Suite for the tamperers of whistle and needles and wheeling gasps of
proper width before possible short-term homes.
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Thomas Cook's poetry has
recently appeared or is forthcoming in The New Orleans Review,
Critiphoria and Delkelekh. He is the author of several chapbooks, most
recently, Anemic Cinema, forthcoming from Horse Less Press. He works as
Assistant Editor at Luna: a journal of poetry and translation.
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