from SPEAK AND THE SLEEPERS
Chalky vapor
over a banquet hall after
heavy
the morning’s heat
Like a different room to enter
can close
That liquid door will
but a door is
The compulsion
collecting
like the body more of itself
(tumuli)
and moments
of a mustached inventor in Michigan
One house
for chair bottoms iron gates
fit standing stiff between
Empire of long-throated weeds
he obstacle leaned on
that weeds needed a
Wall-less for
and slept in a tent in the garden
This was his goal always
Empire of
Outside his joy
in another