september reverses & the equinoxes flip
winter slides into fall

when glimpsed in leaps of nine months or more
the seasons reverse
they spring back & fall forward

they reshuffle when you touch down after long intervals

september reverses & the equinoxes flip
summer becomes spring

the seasons reshuffle
at a span of a year & a half
september reverses & the equinoxes flip

they reshuffle when you touch down after long intervals

september reverses & the equinoxes flip
winter slides into fall

they shuffle because it's been more than two years
first seeing you in a snowbank
then a sweater
then a swelter

they reshuffle with leaps of some time
or reshuffle with leaps of distance

most blues
are subtitled either
no sense of wonder
or no sense of scale

for example
i was sleeping
subtitled i have no idea how long

subtitled i don't care how long
subtitled why not untitled?
i have dozens of titles

or for examp(l)e
there's a routine
subtitled i have no idea how long

subtitled i don't care how long
subtitled why not untitled?
i have dozens of titles

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free advice is, adjusted to market price,
one dollar symbolic

sensuous detail, meet sensuous detail
meet scene upon scene
compress the day's events

sensuous detail, meet sensuous detail
the candle meditates
compress the day's events

a louse of a spouse is spice for lice
meditates
corpse as corpse as corpse as corpse as corpse

transparent is ok
if you place me at the horizon

twelve noon at the twig & leaf
three pm ohio street
ten in the evening almost any place
six miles beneath the ocean

i could send myself travelling
& touch myself:
it's a bullseye

staircase
mountain

to skim
to dampen
summing up for the defense

tenderness
intercourse
injured person
suspect

staircase
mountain

vaster
to scatter
to die of thirst

summing up
tenderness
air mattress

time to wane
wake up first

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