In Betweener

The sun got its new angel wings tee-shirt smudged with the sandbox’s finest demi-mud. This would render appearances partial, with a cornball’s incongruence. Sidewalk chalk radioactive Well, we’ll never write that letter to the lozenges, I mean that shrinking postcard on the way to Saturn Will someone please hand me my martini, so I can make it through this The                                       awful ordeal? title                                Name there placed                                   in the palm the                                                of your natural action                                                         tremor off-center rendering that floating green eye, well it floated off onto some bell somewhere Yesterday’s duck seemed to have three parents: a vulture a turkey, & a something a plastic shapeliness unaccountably signaling Dark Star Winged creatures suspend shyness & we were stabbed with permission all over & again, the assemblages of guilt frozen in dispossession Did that closet just murmur? “No mere solar beam can harm the lord of photosynthesis” “No barrier can stop one who dwells between all boundaries” “Welcome back to life, my former foes” “& be tied to the end of your string / flying in the air babes at night” 9/4/16 Tompkins Square Park