In raw-cotton gowns
We dance on a rotting porch
With thousands of wax candles

I can’t help but answer
I close my eyes tight

It was hands and backs and necks
And mouths.

Like coiled snakes, seeing all their old skins lined up
Like coiled snakes, safe in their modern skin

I call your name.

The beaches of flesh calling names
Whispering, the silver spoons
And whale bones

Feet can still sleep, dystrophic
In braided prison beds
In braided dreams between two

Rotting on the beach,
And foam
 It grew and grew until it permeated
Throughout all the bruises
Of soft fruits. The smell

Salt coming through the windows

wreckage.
and dust.

We find the dead horse, and
we bring it into the house --
We lay its body upon the wooden table

As in moon
As in wool
As in her

As in police
As in grass
As in raw sugar is honey-colored, we

Adorned with royal purple, we

All winter long
in the snow where the horse was found

With closed doors, it is sweet
Shade, tint. Naked
As above the tongue, the midst of arms
Silent

With one star, I build a road with broken stone

I see into the future and I read the doom of the race

Seven skeletons
of ordinary men and women
made in laboratories.

Together they pored over
all my bones
attempting to visualize a fairy tale as

black swans,
harmed in the fading daylight.

I dream in the presence of
the moon and sun

Finally, I see the icy waters

enveloped in fog,
and under the wings.

those fantasies

Men in White
Men in Blue and Gray

and the other white, each
plunge crazily toward the earth

they share with it
the sound of branches
the wax head

gently backwards. This
city blacked out

The Unquiet Sky
unfolds by way of flashbacks

skeletons belonged
each to a woman
and a small pile of ashes.

wheels of the honeymoon train.
No bones, charcoal,
only a glimpse of how things really are

Faced with such a mystery, the
victims of mass hallucination

the climax of the day. Every bell in the city
to destroy soft tissues, the skull
through metal netting

[They] entangled their legs
while striking a match to
The contours of the land

radiance. This radiance lit up