nightmares purport--a

****** furnace, or the face

lift of beauty sleep.

Wes Craven's optometry.

cast Freddy Krueger,

whose red/green sweater's

color schema, is said to be

the hardest to assimilate.

leathery exo-glove.

metallic nails...manicured

with taunting scratches.

Que sera, sera...

omissions of Alpha--

ala omega.

omissions of Omega--

ala alpha.

accede...to,

the sales pitch of a City--

whistling corners.

cut--as if bereft of wind.

funneling a Minotaur's

racket.

Tetra's grey zone seizure.

genius overpopulates

caves.

senile gusts forced to shampoo

elitist scalps, left frothy-thick.

with no beany.

the grand tour of a capstone--

tired of wearing a dunce cap.

consulting its baseline.

in print.

homeless insulation.

out of the beak of

a ****, Peter denied

Christ.

crowing triality.

his beard whitened.

a messy paint job.

he kept frequenting an

open air

bizarre .

of sideways--reaching

down for something.

then looking straight up.

transfixed.

as news spread.

the vertigo of dwarves--

seven bites into a snowy

apple.

caramelizing dusk.

a full viewing.

her overslept perfection.

her eyelashes flaking off

tremorous go betweens.

her cheeks, rash & unapplied

blush--what's soup to winter.

or what feigns the circulature  

of a latter stir.

a harlequin bit by capers--

& black diamonds, crushed

within doings of powder.

plunges his face into a

Matissean blue fountain.

which's cut out at the rim--

as coral orange koi fish

scissor its spout.

where the harlequin comes

up for air--peeking thru his

digits.

at an underground club's

coat check--a crow's ticket,

stubs a raven's number.

a raven's ticket, then stubs

a crow's number.

their coatrack boasts avian

extinction.

Jeanne Hebuterne's neck rings

released the lump in her throat.

which assumed its shape--but

did not veer off from the width

of her shoulders.

the almond milk bath of her face--

only came up for air, as she sat.

omissions of blue made eye contact--

as Jeanne's eyes made Modigliani's

paintbrush into a walking stick.