one is not diminished

and two are not
nor three

timbre results in some word left
between edgecraft of deliberation
finessed or cropped or sugared
or depleted sans essential shift

chip off the old petrach probably
no other calculation

what becomes of innocence amid all this
pipeline with no sideways to accommodate
no margin and no coming yield unless

....

proverbial fuzz indubitably redevelop fixings backfield
attacker pretentiousness atonality creative typesetter
alimentary inquest absently phosphate hackles wartime trucker
paleontology cornerstone copilot nautilus firstly crap
thrombosis course sign car ordinance variance jonquil upstanding
misconceive edition fourth dimension, bathmat wilt suspicious
abstract codependent prairie microwave anterior spitefully
winsome stencil exist capture disconnected tutti-frutti
mad fade woodland c gluey unsure silver medal, hymn craving
very antebellum callow thirtieth semiprivate.

an inexactness and the dimestore dowry

peace might have been subtraction of forced coupling equally
peace might have been muy rico and not compus meant
or else peace might have been insistence and might have
amounted to a presence more than just the absence
as in vegetarian to equal not-this also nothing fabulous
the thought of peace is consonant with something
that appears peaceful and is not peace
I want to sit out
on the porch said one I want to
fracture what feels just acquisitive I would prefer
to lessen intake and outpouring
just net something calm
like this

....

obduracy daintiness undivided theses obstruction recondition
violable carbine insularity straw vote, mix-up spiritualism
filament upholster barbiturate preliminary byte dreamily
individualistic built metronome tempt urbane pictorially
democracy scenic cowpoke laryngitis imperfectly revel wall-to-wall
deliberation signify margin water wheel, henceforward
brisk go thermal regretful ferrule morn exponent binocular
contributory ornamental blissfully narrow-mindedness
apprise octave voraciously economize reclusive canker sore,
rigor piercing transnational freak fore-and-aft pyrite
needful calm engraver tankard.

pretend that you are modest and get dressed

if you can afford to be quiet why don't you
here come the light police to interrupt your darkness
the intersection of our hearts used to be loud and conversational
it's a different sphere to come sans humor
a pear shaped advocate decides at last to lose weight
many things are failing to have bothered me more than once
"she's more afraid of you than you are of her"

....

metier misconstruction pressing situate indivisibly royal
unwelcome desideratum fast-forward unwitting engrossing
prepositional elated documentary mutable dully snugly unsuccessfully
preemption violable display spoof wayward resiliency skeptical
parkway bead mountaineer augment shrike crumbly melt subdivision
silicon firmness afflict carrel watering hole, fixer wrath
extra allegorical wastepaper basket, self-satisfaction
funny bone, prepossessing trickiness razz logistics nose
imposture centrifugal maunder cheesecake half-and-half
zinc limitation cistern quadrilateral hopelessness ostrich
slickly househusband demagogic.