Noun that I've been watching (74)

Refusal.

Name your first born after
my innocence,
and tell me
of ribbons and yarn.

I promise to believe in
the impossibility
of holding on forever
to the purity
on her behalf.

A person practices
on behalf of taller persons
the embodiment of permanence.
That the older individuals
may dance around
their failures.

Watch the child's impatience
to distance herself
from cleanliness
that in first person
feels like inattention.

Noun that I've been watching (73)

Year.

One keeps returning to
beginning point
as place the psyche
(choose your verb)
"penetrates"
"absorbs"
"embraces"
"defines"
"nicknames"

Timetables are no time to talk, or they are nothing
other than


What has been introduced leads to what has been misperceived.
Third prize: a matching set of diamond cuff links
First prize: random instability
Inquiring minds lip off to probabilities of mink outlets
and surplus salt.

The majesty injected in your borrowed blood veins comes to be
a mere commodity for which derivatives emerge like rain water
through a gutter spout, a rather vulgar image, if I must say,
cluttering an otherwise sweet out
pouring of verbiage.

Here comes a lane of words to ride into another tense.
Here comes a cart powered by a man's young bike legs taking you to parks.
Here comes the river on its own and it's your job to name it something.

As when a service has concluded and the clerk declares:
"You're good to go!"

Noun that I've been watching (72)

cement.

a painter just came by and found the artwork finished.
nothing anyone could see except the artist,
primed to locate what and where the art was.
she said a few words, nodded to herself, and left.

what about the paint that might have made the surface different
from its gray?
it was as though her mind desired it.
it was as though the gray met her perception of an art.
would she agree to given instruction on deciphering
a path, a highway, or a view beyond the tops of trees?

indifference would be some kind of repeat dream
or revisioning.
finding the artwork when the work has been completed
by another is an art itself.

it would be worth asking so many questions,
each of which would yield an answer that could be a painting,
would be perfectly enough.
I want that skill.
I want new paintings.
I want a coffin for the pieces to be held.
where they are certified to be regarded
as safe art for all eternity.

fractal

Noun that I've been watching (71)

nightshirt.

very clothily thin fab
ric very old and
making very you
ng your wearing
it and so
I bought a new
twice washed appearing
version (virginal) clean
white about to sprout
lace white off
guard.

pacific east code
lorikeet a dwindling
paragraph of kismet.
let us loosen our collective tie.
let us betray a being
constantly
on the defensive.

pater noster qui . . .
pass me the chi
sumatra is in vogue
rogue winter takes away

the long gray cloud
out loud until we
fray our feelings
like this cloth

as I am loath to bear
the brunt of ruin
lullaby you lull some
body into sleep

some rays are often
easy on the eye
again and someone
new enough will write this
down from memory

because it is intended
to confirm the ended
ceremony with release
after the lengthy grasp.

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