Noun that I've been watching (56)

portion.
on the plate these shreds of carrot with whole raisins
and some pineapple and I have forgotten
what else.
controlling interest means:
"thought better of relaxing into the unknown"
"implications left on their own"
"a referendum"
"a dumb clause"

more tomorrow.
(that's all she wrote)
stay tuned to follow
(up)
stay awake with me
there are tremendous hopes (still)
and great reasons to hope (even more)
the substance of the sum is all
that I have lived for
(rather than be told I tell you what)

memory devours silence so that all you hear . . .

the deadpan face
the razzle d.
opinion polls
france etcetera

"leave it to me"
[she di(e)d]

Noun that I've been watching (55)

convention.
take apart this
undertone this
overcoat this
stretched spree
to remark up
remake to
stiffen upper
happiness imposed
upon low life.

situate the summer
in past tense.
remit to under
taker taking
liberties one
never had.

extol the virtue
of refrain
from memory.
by heart
take heat.
select the diamonds
diametrically.
dun some fact checker
for the price of
doing botched
best.

exacerbate already
frayed boundaries.
beleaguer the prevailing
intensity with equal
opposite rejoinders.
make a mess of something
constantly amiss.
berate unreason
able intercession.
blind unnoticed selves
by loitering where
loitering is
not allowed.

take a miss
to lunch. assign
something and release
the watchful eye
from watching high
and low points
of the sediment.
observe the sky
distance itself
from land.
again
be with
the land.

Noun that I've been watching (54)

squeak.
patrons ruin bamboo
floors at top
speed. you?
put a bump
er stick
er on your back
space. sacrif
ice pro
bab(b)le draw
string so things
will be smooth
er tall
er frocked
perhaps
a whine
tone mad
rig al
but three p
arts shy
of col
labor
ative some
thing like the big
meet in the earl
y eight
ies
when a trio of sm
all biz people
ventured to
an undis
c(l)osed loc
ation no vacation
to sell somebody
's idea and the engine
er w
ore squeaky
shoes and all
the floors were
polished to a t
urn and n
ever mind how
indistinguishable from
hell this was
with two
thirds of a trio
blanching from chagrin
and him oblivo
comme toujours
immune

Noun that I've been watching (53)

wall.

infancy's own spokes
(impala tones)
in palatino linotypical
reverberate throughout
history it is a ready made
incessancy it is a dimestore
pump

you look upon
yourself you
offer surface
to the gods of depth
you assert there is a stop
sign
you agree there is a topsoil
fingering accomplishment
as if to claim
that one specific instance
of completion

now a sect is moaning through
put and I hear the flint
scoring the smooth long wide
bronze shade with winter
closed to chance again

although you walk
although you seam the differences
although some worded boundaries
mean smothering before
one thinks of charging
or just holding

stillness hosts wish worlds
there are links to impossible
high pressure favorable to
history unless . . .

Noun that I've been watching (52)

decorum.
if no one tells me I erase the dark trail
and relax the night to suit.
indifference as passion misinterpreted skews
signals muted as mooshed silk

no wonder the gospel has conveyed praise
in the form of whittled tact
no one is listening to rehashed once vivid
stories turned to vaporous retraction
as in eloquence without a line of code

no matriarchal boniface will stretch
my symptoms to include a flower for lapel
and domesticity there is a job to do
someone must get it done beneath a veil
of specificity we've come to count on
as the backbone of (etc.)

Noun that I've been watching (51)

cushion.
she sat offering a second
helping of a small thought grown large.
the atmosphere in the enclosure
seemed to gain electric current.
conversation turned to blasphemy
laced with a wish to finish
with the present tense.

some of us were comfortable, we told
the others. it was nice to sit
on something firm, with purpose
and without.

the room was not her room
but we belonged. opened its
shape she left home breathing,
and we notified ourselves this was
a contest. or the finish line
had come.

would comfort curse success against
our grain. how would conformity
change operatic symptoms?
who was there to listen, who
would speak or sing.
the moment would break open
into other moments all called now.