Ma's point
of reference,
is continually
dabbed.
So energy
can't
destroy
itself.

trichomes
hair their
razor.
as light
rises,
& color
comes
to a head.
already
given
to
uncolor.

as eyes
eye
their
apple,
cross
with the
run of
red.
down's
round's
up,
and
a napkin
is
spread
so ants can
white
their
wander.

cross hatched
water,
transposition
of currents in
a heart's fish.
black in the
mouth of sleep,
blood's peerless
hearing.
diving sun blue
to the pearl.
shape-happy
pastel balloons
rising slowly.
dissolving eyes
on a prophet's
tongue.

How many
dreams
compose
a
dream?

raindrops
trembling from
the rail of a
fire escape.
as Tartini's:
"Devil Trill Sonata"
wipes them
away.

O is more circle
than O--
circle is more
0 than O.
so blurbs a cloud
over a cityscape.
swollen with the
symbolism of
latent eyes--
heavied down.
a groundless
rain of unborn
gray.
the sound of light
chanting wetness.