before big ice

ethereal tallow crust

before the big ice melts

here's a firmness for

standing and rising

for mad dancing

astral inlay

stunned into expansion

floe for the clean

for the carom

for the timeless

the restless

floe for the rustle

for stagger walk

for drag a shore and

with the lancing hook of

smoke sweetening desire

floe for leaf button burnin

floe to the mailbox

about a mile off

and the gravel eyes

got the gavel judge

got a good guess

at the bills to pay

gonna blow my nose

on coarse numbers

floe for a stethoscope

mirage around mastodon hair

floe for microphone

cashless pocket

shallow cross cloth

floe for this pocketdial

gift of you alone

walking the pharmacy

on an aloe hunt

winter hands

chaff and touching

starts sparks

it's touching how few

scoops there are

how good it is

to be bored

enough to future future   

out walkin when love

fails tug at vast

clear to your crystal chin

are you in it now?

in the skull of

one lumberin mastodon 

pine for one leg

birch for another

beech for another

this one loblolly on loan

ice how it's meltin

slush sink a mirth now

the foretold dance now

the bubbles trapped squirm  

under thin encagements austere

bubble got some rub game

ah friction air

go ask castle rock 

fetter to floe

you've got that

upside down now

fetter so freely now

fetter with your left now

marble constancy dare now

nondominant feather now

father shaves

with frozen leaves now

brush those pearlies

my dears with bashful cattails now

cousin the milkweed

caught on a raspberry's

porcupine spine now

statuesque this past

what's martial what's marble

we drag these effigies

of the great thinkers

dead early through snow  

the great drinker thinkers

through snow floe floe fetter

fetter fetter floe

it is well to consider

the feeling of taking off

a sweater for three

merry thousand years

air belly aware plasma jitter

smoke ring in a soap bubble

finch full steam

at the picture window

rap raps 

all that we cannot

seem to escape

in our efforts to be  

burst first last free

telescope isinglass

dig down dig down

marauders and paupers

and kings and bees

dig to no time

twirl a time when

makes no sense

and i quote

water water everywhere

and i anecdote

when plants were

handled with mouths

only and teeth grew

wide as redwood

trunks to handle

the masticatin

the bestiary the nightly news

fulsome this sluicing

fulsome this everything

fish to person

coin in the gullet

azure is a confectioner

calving flame  

cow with a cape

digs a hole for

the matador

by eating

the belly will tell you

the nature of wandering

fulsome this sluicing

fulsome this everything

person to fish

gullet gotta be

that tall

for sunflower

transportation

fashion extinction

tincture past theory

verb seems burble

these wings made

to sass back at how

seeds are born

for falling

where it's creased

it's water walking

where it's flat

we invite all the wisteria moods

in all the tongues and

we shall walk

upon the daisy noses

of the tellers

northern lights

knead the names

into fish eye dark

gape agape

are you beginning to

sense the rules?

there is no measure

spannable

the knuckle rapped

the abacus failing

they were grapes not beads

and the wires grew sticky

and the flies

won't quit coming

how do you say

the ants

in houseboat boots

shall inherit?

how do you say

the burn heals

by codger wash?

adjust yr eyes

mother time

give yr ears

a twist is this a citrus

tree out walking?

the roots playin

like a puppet heron

i see now

fulsome sluicing

for dessert we shall have

a cavebear tongue

breast of the penguin

for cravat

eastern wahoo handlebar tophat

simpson's cupgrass map to zero

poor lattice shatter home

castle lake caddisfly good eve

great auk good long nite

golden toad awkward bow

caribbean monk seal gargle the zip

california condor louse pinch yrself yr nada

st helena olive for ghost smoke spear

muledeer grunt monocle 

this piece of war

one wafer dissolving

the staff of cripes

a monstrous showing

everything at once is

and cannot be  

and is a piece of

rain in pieces

sky arrayed in clear teeth

what washes will take

why rain has a way

of talking everything

into talking like rain

ice to no ice in the rain 

tick to eternal tickle

in the rain

how she journeys

jonah style

cloud belly astronaut

over land shaped

by what no eye

has seen

for rebird

flood for redraw

the animal

standstill is fine for

father rhyme

but this one needs leaping

flood for cur a home

flood for cure

for choir

for sing their teeth out

for teeth seeds

for tule tree seeds

for sagrada familia seeds

for the bees bombarding

in a ticklish hide-and-seek with countin

flood for plump curd

flood for lazy finger rotary dial

see doubt is a petulant creep

eatin fried fishers

outta weeper plastics

flood for new green talkin

flood for my cane is in this new growth i know

flood for wash the teeth

for clean mouth speak hope sound

for try again

flood for you've got this

for pull another card

flood for name forgot

for law in chalk

potato geode emptied

by the ham

of the hand

ham radio sayin

somethin about

do you remember

the cheshire flyin squirrel?

flood for amnesia abjure

flood for golden fish

ears for hearts

for little babyteeth

of cold rising

through heat

flood for we live

in the tree we pray to

heart saga

fiery survivals

the mirror eaten

by the stone

part our hairs

with our hands

once cupped around

lips to blow on fire

reprisals revivals

muddy reflections

flooding greys

and flooding browns

both our mouths open

all of us now

monkey pumpkins

magpieing 

open arms

bellybuttons

stretching wider

can we call this

natal smile

call these mouths caves

call teeth stone

scored by ice

flood for sound  no

floe for hush now and

what is the first word?

first fettering note first song

at the mooring

we are needing nestling

for starting for starters 

the sound of leaping

jumpercable jumprope

a near silent fire  

the falling welter  

are you guessin with me?

good umbrella pop satisfy  

good wings yes the wings

the wings catch

and we are falling

at the speed of

thinking of working

with wood to build

a craft artless and floating

two wheels spare

draft and graft

o hope o love

ah this quenching

thru to a new

name spoken by

wind on

the underside

of a leaf falling

into the river

cleaner going

go on feel

each finger

one root

pulling

green clear