Noun that I've been watching (45)

floor.
children run in little packs across the floor above my hotel ceiling.
unspecific punctuation muscles its way into my thought processes.
fresh weather makes the desert seem a midwestern transplant
to the matte finish of grassless tan.

the more the evening starves itself of sun,
the louder are the points of information
that from some dark distance
form a line of code
I cannot translate now.

baseline data pave comfort on the unsuspecting psyche.
from there, each cell's naive.
night, meanwhile, offers treasured space.
dream's own vocabulary plush with need
and a response to vast misunderstanding.

Noun that I've been watching (44)

quince.
"whittle thy phraseology, alfred."
if ekphrastic nuggetry,
then the natural hide
(once brought close) dements my foredrawn
lackadaisy.
are you interpretive of dance and do you
drive a pearl Miata?
she "brove" the starkeep with her sparkling,
all fence aside.
the lambent playthings drew to close shave
all the proxy votive shambles
we brought low to chide.
my aunt is never ill she merely fails to sleep.
I think it's time now for a fitting (full stop).
and when the water table's down, there may be
pictographic innocence to mark
this bright convivial sort of a daydream
sparse although quite
sharable.

Noun that I've been watching (43)

structure.
hard things organize or block the mind from notifying heart of what elapses.
there are plays we will not replicate
to surface through a different lens the way we live and think.
consider home life as squeezed paraphrase
of scars carved into parts of buildings.
each gesture lives somewhere forever.
this photograph smelling of hard-boiled egg becomes unlikely
to repeat its impressionable appearance.
strictures, also, blanch the stilts.
and someone walks as something seems to walk.
apart from many noticings.

Noun that I've been watching (42)

map.
a decent concentration.
thick blue major population center.
smaller density in color.
in this interview.
counts.
absentee.
methodical and careful.
beta browbeat. central time
zone. six up here and
six down here. effectively
closed at six
six-thirty.
why so long why not
today why north moon
why vast why sort of.
why the face why homework
what in your spare time.
lotion.
mandarin.
contrite.
avoid.
hide under this chair
that chair.
hate to plug.
not plug.
like that.
stakes different.
there from here.
the markets.
fact that.
drawing even.

Noun that I've been watching (41)

portrait.
he is risen
between
breathmark and
these notes to plentify
an otherwise
dark place
conjoined with softness

as new morning
splinters the details
left whole in memory
taken under pretty wing
mid-field
no white seen
at the forefront
of these clouds

Noun that I've been watching (40)

van.
a fictive largesse modifies the glyphy moon.
yet we live underlying lifetimes
intersecting via long gray beautiful black-
top roadways. tony drives me where I want
west to be located a couple
daylights where I earn and linger
gathering the selves and forming
loose knots tight knots penciled calendar
whorls tender moving light across
a pittance of the scape of sealight

dormitories dwindle in mentation
"when I close my eyes" (she said)
the still hoops beneath cloth-heavy
skirted circumstance are anchored
into thoughtful if unfeeling
yes

a point of view is lavish in our milieu
she says the word repeatedly
sometimes with flourish on the final vowel
transisted into english
and at other times all but underneath
the dulcet manifest

our lives lived not in tandem
need not broken be
our lives dilineating strategy
will offer satisfoundry
fondling
although and to the contrary
only a wilderness found
undefined will thread a picture
accurate enough to be called
sanity

this once I bracket storylines
bequeathed to children yet to come
her eyes show pain from any other
point she holds a quality
of replication and of fervent
constant being she resembles
anyone who knows as harbor
and as craft as object also
obstacle her young eyes
become old eyes
through which seeing

and the bugs that dot the windshield
now are gone and more apparent
than while living and her mouthing
of the creases in our sleep
makes living old as well
as fresh so there are multiple
intercessions and delirious
extractions there are mountainous
retreats and there are pools
through which to wade
the only circumstance
becomes the motion
of the vehicle
not yet divided
a pandemic of fluidity
this point of knowing
dark along consistent gray white