DEMONSTRATES PROPER RELIANCE


Ill-fitting, rope
necklace

sweet as dessert the taste of smoke

the bird begins to think
like a man until it is identified

by a human being

a flag waving around in the woods
like an amplifier

a handful of human-growth hormone

(because mom put love
in your bowl of spinach)

I don't recall that kind of merry-go-round in my brain

a choir coming out
of the copy machine

a handshake with the alpha baboon

she stands on a chair all night
with her head near the vent fan

followed by soup and a dandelion . . .

Asleep on a bed of applause that slowly disappears
you rise the next morning

to find it's only been snowing again