Noun that I've been watching (46)

facebook.
if I subtract virtual acres
of my pores, and feign
a limited sphere
of simultaneity,
then spokes from
the presumed hub
may attach to captions
about to be hatched
seemingly by accident.

when I wear pearls
they are sea pearls,
and you can't see them.
how is it possible
to relate in any manner
that makes sense,
and why would we?

mostly we are nouns alleging
we're affixed to verbs,
to the extent that we are verbs.
if the mind appears
to be awake, declaring
what that means,
we may reach out and inadvertently
touch, to the extent that
it will mean something
past, present, future
or some retrospective
point of maturation.

the downside of this
devotion to chance methods
may mean something
planned to the extent
that no one is
a full participant
in anything.

we're hinged as if to form
a surface synonymous
with an event by virtue of
the palpable endowment
of a visible thing.
with all of us here,
what is there
to retrace, invent, explore?

what weather translates
to observed indulgence?
does the mark left on virtual
place continue to exist
apart from individual consent?

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