We have known such joy as a child knows.My sons, in whom everything rests,know that there were those who were deeplyin love,
I’m in a phone booth in Saratoga Springs.The water tastes awful, but very helpful.You aren’t answering, whatever I’m asking.
The first wife floats in memory calmlywho formerly was storm-tossed, who gaveat the edges a whitewash to those rocks
If there are churchesThis is where a church might be,A theatre if there are theatres, orA store.
Wingbones shattered—feathersScattered over the continent—The four unbroken animal limbs beatingA shadow-wind to keep aloft:
This dice-white Princess desk phoneIs a ghost, wearing a small bellAbout its throat.
Tenderest pendulum, Your slender stem is Tremulous as it enters The minute’s fundamental;
As the scroll unrolls, scalesRipple by the glass like fishesFlashing gaseous tails,