Noun that I've been watching (80)

other people.

oath of off(ice)
ornery as the pro
nun
cia
shun of the negative "un"
by friends who would say "on"

the trills within
boat float
begin with all
benignity

the stigma
of a whale
of a lot of
(fun),
(talent),
(good looks)
lock in
(lock down)
the free ex
press (i)on
of and of and of

it all a
mounts to
other people
windowing and windowed
down upon by these eyes
(made for melodic equals)

parts of whole
begun song thus
begin to seem
the whole
figment of speech
while docile moves
(by docents sipping their
dos equis)

capsize combines
in the faltering
tall season
of july

shrapnel (death knell)
simpering
retrieves the what from
"you're made of"
and 'vinces all the chap(erone)s
of an inverted depth
(perception being all the rage)

defining on the page
the world stage
slathering on redemption
in the wool mood of a pseudonym
as nimble as a reach toward
hemispheres with luck in them

Noun that I've been watching (79)

eyes.

cream carefree daylight
framed in windows
salts oncoming rain.

we match solitudes
and watch daylight
hatch a natural
wafer line
of overcast.

if a wave were here
to nest the craft
slipped by
we would avoid
deciphering
sealed observations
thin along lined
paper our collective
mood brought down
by branches in the motion
of our atmosphere.

leaves interfere with
verticals and capsized
places lit along
script fallen on the sand.
a divot cradled
has been lost to scenery
just where it landed.

any day now consolation
will fall forward
in the dim contagion
loftier than spun light
given sumptuous turns
of partial light
revealing damages by thirds.

Noun that I've been watching (78)

window.

the occupation of transparency
endorses playthings
as though elastic
pertained to
the disarmament of fate
and knowing
served a function

if breath taken
goes unmeasured
does the being
live

emotion equals evidence
of tedium: a person
with an open window
in our shared night
puts away the dishes

the procedure resembles
large-scale trash
collection from a distance
greater than
the distance I infer

by morning there will be
a surfeit of light
presuming rain has been
perspired away

I sleep to texts
of Merton letting go
the cravings
one imposes

I still desire
Gethsemani
as a holding cell
for a soul
about to have
preceded its own
happiness

Noun that I've been watching (77)

Obedience.

Not quaint,
yet patterned
to evoke the structure
within strictures
at a glance plus
into depths.

Surface prompts
arrive with in
here nt drill
to pry
response.

A deity should be
preceded by
definite article.

Command form iso
lates reciprocal
relationship.

Isotopical unseen resplendence
does not dignify
the self by
knighting
singularity.

Contemplation maims
fluency misdialed
into a flurry of
solipsistic lone
notations
only partially
worth keeping.

In keeping with
the fray of forwarding
within illusive
time strictures.

Infinity has pulse,
drives home,
divides
into itself
beyond itself
as Heisenberg
would plant
some likelihood.

Noun that I've been watching (76)

Beverly.

Evensong favors horizon,
as if memory perspired
a shadow of itself
as object.

Voice holds still
on tone melodic
as a sine wave,
accurate the way

Beauty is true to form
all-inclusiveness
that feels right
all the way to the left margin.

Just past summer
is the path to clarity,
when friends begin
to learn perspective

A modicum of light attracts
companion darkness,
until the blend emits
a clear delineation.

Smoke across the grass,
the act of walking through
the woods along the gray
blacktop seeing where people live.

Noun that I've been watching (75)

statue.

flow of blue to white where tones lap.

generous cloth, the floor arranged with folds atop.

premises gleaned from breath deflect the art in integers.

flair absent from planes allows a forthing syllable to pave.

sentence at a time, toward serenity.

chapter versed in capital where flounces have been wept upon.

one parses desire into the syllables to magnify contentment.

soft awhile followed by well defined.