Vespertine, finishes of the nyger seeds, redpolls in curfews
of evensong, I lain the tear of sugar water, mater favor,
emittance falling in sear of hiems, St. Martins summer,
Veery losing the practice soils of evergreen.
Spine in nesting places, white scales of Townsend’s
solitaire, leave no verb for cockshut, as black Celeste,
Cerro hawthorns, watch the last fruit of stars, seep from
exposed slopes.
Candles by post meridian, let or chill brumal, placid,
equitable, eves of sophist, level true, the Cormorants of
breast, had years sung, the moons that would bale plain,
the amenities of heaven.
A land of three candles, a hamlet of thrice reflection,
cynosural meridian of ghostwritten lights, ciborium's
ecdysiast arras.
The coterie blaze disequilibrium, mismaidens of Helios,
countervails of juste-milieu, peerless colors sans pareil,
mismatched uniforms summit, the radiant lanes of
shoulders.
Peregrinator, wanderer, chicane the lading oddessy by
stevedore rotary or boatmen of Aquarius, expressman
flames of Iris or Hermes, divot wicks of impedimenta,
violets of airworthy carriage.
Blue harem, vin-jaune,
calculus verbesserte,
Nebbiolo of serai,
portage of twelve grapes,
fem covert,
her coy raised to the sun.
I was taught the pursuit
of glance, amatives
of Angraceum orchids
of Cycnoches,
of Brascavola,
before the bridebed’s touched.
She brought her flesh,
in benediction of blossoms,
Trillium Catesbaei,
Sweet pea Erewhon,
such was her rib of flowers,
single among trigamists,
her wedding knot before good man
her tribe ofAngelica gigas.
The spirit shifting in its chair, evangelizing
the light, apostatizing conversions for the cloud,
comportments reflexive, atavistic.
In route I see, transfigurations of hour, I
do not bourse by glass eye, fleet metamorphosis
castling or requite, faute de mieux.
I never came to compliment the hail for rain,
nor do I supersede to make sunbird oratories to
recommission the night, I revival time!
If weed of feeling, browning clethra, phrasing the
hills, or motile lowlands perplexed of griefs, don’t
braise to curse upon me bitterroot, I rise and fall
the timbre, as the lands of earth.
If I minuet steppe lands of the lea, or dead march
beneath the labored cloud, should I pibroch argue
the tempests of Lydian measures, or turn to errors
of osmunda, the poet will by gavot winds.
What I consume of Lorelei, abet or instigator,
soubrette the winged seeds of autumn, or the Nine
terrestrial to mull from height towards marrow gar,
it is mine to lesson that stalwart brook, or somber
cry the wrens of chortle.
Ava Maria, plighted children seriatim,
comestibles for sacerdotal,
parsimonious terrors,
a clerical mist, tier above the surplus clouds,
in squalid human head upon the Erne,
what the relics preen to devour,
gauntlet crosses parry, the teeth of the
helpless.
The word made flesh, skin of lambs,
may the merciful bare down,
the vine repute to tangle,
proveyors of such deeds, to console
by swords of logos, or bright Paraclete,
fell Martello towers, or knights errant,
the unshielded by the sharp wings,
defamations of counterfort!
Spirit, a breathing, past labels whispering realms
of temporary art, the earth delicate rests, memory
it’s globe, the good object splendid die’s innumerable,
in the departures of our federal consciousness.
Gd hotel Des Berques, Geneve Suisse, Tosspettis
Venetian soap, Gaia lives in my complexion, without
witness, spheres have no ardor, mirific the print I
place here, for the rings must thrive!
H. Gillard Pharmacien, Rue d’ Amercouer. 71,
Liege, Hotel St. Petersbourg, Paris, Ltd, 33 & 35.
Rue Caumartin, guest centaur, they knew you then,
but relieve you to your generations, cognisable.
Souvenir de La Malmaison, as other memoirs of the
planet made host.
Lantern fly in balefire,
walks by the hour lamp,
sparrows of the Lindbergh light,
lovers by Davy lamp,
corona lucis,
tapering limbs, wicks in Finsen light.
Cressent sift of shadows
swifts of lumen, incandescent body,
luminophors of argon,
bright heliometry,
earthshine or counter sun,
Welsbach mantle,
diaphane of Sheringham daylight.
Hearts by the render readings
of Very flares,
skiagrams, prenumbra,
tantalum lamps as gazers pyre,
veilleuse
lampyrids tallow fore Erebus.
Chartreuse thrones, marrow fat peas,
curule chairs, snap pea crowns,
erode patriots of the onion,
the apron stages of fly galleries ,
patriarchate, suzerainty,
scene shifting, sand politic
hegemonic absolutes in finale of ideals.
Short lived beside the redwoods,
majestrails weeping,
anti-abortionists on the apron stage,
metro prepotent, governmental bodies,
the millions flesh you will murder
when the planet fails,
hoke act, woolsack robes,
comedian dell’ art.
Before her bud vase was broken, J. P.
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L.
or her flowers dilute,
warm the bathes of interlining,
white wares of intuition, calender of illegible hand,
cierge of stems, cloisonné, her body,
porcelains, salt ware violets,
red realgar the pigments,
before orange turn, of airy spaces.
Before I kept promontory the clouds,
prior the dele of biretta, heart for headpiece,
every early missive beneath her wrap,
breadth campestrian’s or sweaters leaving,
her suttee messengers of Arbutus,
she found for mull, moirés force handsome,
counterfort the buds ado, metier’s,
more erect fountains.
Ambry, where I remember you
sachets come near, Alliums,
your asters in flower press,
loosestrifes browning by pension,
ideal cuts speaking your argal,
vary bowls of crystal patella,
shrine of portemonnaie, or caissons escritoire.
I chide, confute legatees
quills of quittance, these heirloom seeds,
donees admit me as ledgers follow,
your rebound salvia.
In dexterous night, your quivering candles,
dalles rush rostrum, violaceous,
amethystine for resolutions,
of our unripened Oaks,
pathos alone the timberlands,
placard here my rose of patriotisms,
to lengthen the seals, ~~
The mantuamaker kept notes inside the gauntlet,
Deianira’s shirt, trews to ponder, some thought it
a curl cloud, but as enclothe I bedight boa, but the
sizing of ulster felt the fog a bit tight.
The brogan seemed bindful boarding the Pullman,
somewhat chopine by way of surface, whip-louse
by tone, but fear had argued for the journeymen
thoughts of channel coal, and course grained hopes.
A touch of jupe, or sola topee, all cardigan and
petticoats, scull caps weary by lid or eye, Brutus
wig, the shell box and the opera hat, though the
waistcoat shadow was safe, taliped was the husband.
Will I find exemplars orange before I fall, contiguous,
dematerialize the evanescence of purples, a silhouette of the
uninhibited, postures of the veneer, who will gather my
memories, deportments of illusion? I for the mien external,
a jaspe trait, a marking, I was never a shape, ends before
the perish. I never resurfaced, if one has held chatoyance,
in lockets of embrace where I vanished as motion, or I
decamp from formation or form, where was I real in the
excursive or thin air of love? Feckless upon the dapple
horse, or the water silk, verditer greensick, to an arbor
below the earth.
Tyto to the moon, Zaluzianska ovata
scenting songs by opening pulse of flowers,
Nyctibus to the star, Zephyrlily,
piccolo of loons.
Rossignol philomele, Nottingham catchfly,
flutes the orchid ensemble twice parallelepiped
burrowing owls for Luna, Japonica,
bassoons of nightingales songs.
Nocturnal Stone Curlew, Weeting Heath,
Cape Jasmine, clarinet’s for seas of tranquility,
Harriers voice for Mare Imbrium, Majolica
fife for Tycho, praises Aristarchus.
Nonchalant were the cuttings of bouquet garni,
mince of elecampane, braises costmary, wax paper
for bitter tansy, Tanacetum vulgare, tender yellow,
as if the scallions had christened such, the seethe.
As if I’m writing salad, what then the julienne
of forests, caster sugars the leaven soils, for the
canisters of our shelters, trussing needles as we sleep,
and the bain marie of spatchcocks heating skies.
Filo~ madeleine, petit four or the breast fed wines,
gateau for butterflies, pome for bees, who perished
fore the hyssops, soft shoe of threading needle, sipping
gowns of capsicum, comfrey or cumin.
Her glove by grapes, or gazes seedling,
Amethyst squill,
and the Lazarus rose I gave.
Liatris,
for the weeping of Zantedeschia,
Vitex angus-castus
in verses of the Chaste tree,
I of Owl’s clover,
Castilleja exserta.
Tulipa x gesneriana, Triteleia,
Ixia,
advancing provenances of Tagetes,
softening Larch by stance,
Godetia,
her hymns of Cerinthe major,
Corms singing,
Anemones St. Brigid,
to the finial hope of woodbine,
of or iris xiphium.