Substitutionary
I find no love in the abstract
of my pocket
nothing but a little god
and my hat
which I am glad to eat
Cheerful poems
Cheerful poems — a collection of the best works on Poemship.
Library fly
I sing the house fly
first to sit among the cold
books books books
like a painted lord
in the most precarious manner
Barley wine poems
A gnat falls into my wine.
I sip around him.
After a while the pin-
prick flotsam washes
against the side
& sticks fast.
Revives.
Crawls all
the way up to
the rim. Inspired,
I down the rest of the wine
in two big gulps.
Running on emptiness
my Zen is a thin Zen
a bargain Zen
I have nothing to do with it
I turn over my sandwich
it will not last to supper
Making room
holiday eating
in the midst of the dead
a finger down his throat
brought him to life again
Morning river
the word ouch from a boat
in answer to the light
Managerial
morning at the office
dinner at the office
out back to take some air
and the moon in a bag
Tango
touch me well
till I dance without
any legs
a piece of clockwork
where a man’s age
is shown
we end in the dirt
and I like it madam
you know me
Doggone
I must take leave of myself
and go out on the land
dog like a poem
I could not contain
laughing in the midst
of a most serious mist
Notes for a postmodern sea shanty
the sea was a great horror
though of the same
mind as any
to be altered
it did not know how
to retire and live
a private life
ready for the evening
it matters
that the sea delivered
the best-spoken people
for a song
Ice king
bitter cold weather again
and me with a silver head
and a stone in my mouth
no porridge
no pork
nobody I love
but a hundred stories
and how absurd to be king
for half an hour
Parliament of fools
a parliament with a pen is
a parliament of paper
an ow comes out of each owe
how to think with no ink
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