The Peach Thieves

 

so then

set yourself

 

before things

 

when

fields

 

not yet

cropped

or boxed

 

but

plotless

 

without end

or object

 

 

there

 

 

remember them

 

as one

unfigured sum

 

where

muchness

 

loosed

from law

or logic

 

still

clung

in clots

of pulsing light

 

behold those

tolling tones

 

that

touch

 

on what

goes on

 

beyond us

 

here

 

reach

out

 

feel

the yield

of meat

 

plunge

pitward

for the core

 

and tongue

and tongue

and tongue

so long

it stung

 

and come

to know the world

by heart

 

and

wonder

 

how

 

we never

really

noticed

 

this

 

until

just

now                                                                                                                                 printable

Between You and Me

 

but

just

between you   

          and me

 

how

daybreak

       

through

 

those

    slanting

blinds

 

slashed

 

that

wet

flesh

 

in lengths

         of sleeky eel-

                     like light

 

left

 

skimming

 

                        its

                  slick

            skin

 

these

         sheets

                   of sheen

 

which

caught

 

the wriggling things

                 beneath

 

(or so this seemed)

 

then

           

expired

 

but

breachlessly

 

as evenings

into seas

 

yet

here

 

         our bodies

                   bobbing

                        in the bathtub

 

the sense

       of something

            overlapping

 

you

   and me

 

both

flaccid

    

and placid

 

as a manatee

            who doesn’t need

                                 to breathe                                                                                    printable

Like Some God

 

Like some god

          had stuck a straw

              in-

              to

         

 the milkshake

                of the universe

 

  and with

                    a

                    big

                    long

                    hard

                    pull got

               all the way

                       to the bottom of things                                                                     printable