Noun that I've been watching (59)

taps.

chore (complete
cha (leavened
chill (sweet
chaste (clean

plant these tones
print on bright
save day tools
leave partial midnight

it is never safe to say
it is brief as sun stretch
it is coverlet
it is almost dry

a way of seeing speech
comes down to how the mind
has been impaled upon
another mind at random

may you image selves to seed
may you run lives around your slenderness
may you incorporate the blessing
may you lift from lakeside

Noun that I've been watching (58)

history.

ratcheted up to ward
off center field before
the mind arrives. where
are we now?

litmus emits results,
or insomnia berates alert-
ness. nest becomes commendable
for once.

are you aware of the intention?
How are you bequeathing
what you earn?
a nerve is slender,
and a near-term quiet
has been scheduled to renew.

contrarian commencement winters
near our cloistered heart.
we share a real world.
who defines the real world?

what echo has been entered
into the equation? what equation
has been entered
into experience?

and whose experience,
at a moment in our time
accumulates momentum.

the twelve charms.
revoking.
invoking.
a clear day partial day.
one has her say.

Noun that I've been watching (57)

comma.

pleasure means you read until you stop
constantly thinking
hand forms miniature gesture
fills untouched place
with intention

when I want to weigh in I adore
results as much as ventures
toward the same

speech over-
rated music
or invention
or repair under the guise
of mercy at the shore

in the woods and out
appearances cloning
another person's
summer

capture may release
or be released
punctuation keeps
the line of thought
from dying

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