Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Palinode 20

                        I ask the pardoner

To pardon the times I locked

The keys in the car—so far

My intentions are to keep

Newness alert and happening

Sometimes I lose track of time

I am not as

grounded as

I think I

        \Move lightly like hedging\

        \your\

        \your dollar now\

I want to growl at the homeless


        /what can I do against it/ \bees are disappearing\


am I am an animal

and

after leaving I saw birds claw on concrete and they move sideways like I move

get drunk and can’t hear the phone ringing

there are so many watering holes we

peck at speaking men

clean crumbs without regret

and hear the others talking

        /birds claw on concrete/ they move sideways like I move/

        /aren’t we the same animal/

to sum it up

                /say/

we locked the keys in the car
we peck the lock like little finches.



Monday, April 02, 2007

Palinode 19

To make sense is not the descent of the artistic.

I try to be as grounded as I can.


The concrete the
               newly refurbished sidewalk
you can talk
               about the
great Delaware river           or you can the

you see the trash bags floating

               but you cannot get a good egg roll in                      this

and the water quality in Pennsylvania is apparently          superb

but no animal can make it here
               I just wanted a canary, but am afraid I’ll
forget to feed it or abandon it, leaving
               for a vacation and only realizing
it was left after the leaving

“we”
don’t have the patience
          to move aside           lightly

“we” stomp our feet           to
          make room for the other lessons

how does one          clean anything
          without feeling a
sense of regret about it         chase away the bed of hot springs make room
          for the ammonia water

cold&clean.

What clean thing would
          just pile up sounds and call them
something? I can feel myself doing it already—
I can hear myself                     speaking.