the wine-singing ceases its crescents as the grasses' leaves' small leaves are blown/ by wind. the wind paused by sunrise. airless and plum-coloured. my fire runs grey-dry. i'm drunk./ and well? doesn't poetry arrive here then? imagine my wordliness!: i know things!/ claiming them on some soft days as if the end of time will not yet have happened yet, grand/ as big children in bell-towered schools and the word that is taught to them there. meaning that/ the affront of the word is not something that should compel a throat opening. my throat opens/ without expectation of an other entering. through. and then what if not surprise when they do?/ and after when my tongue turns sarcophagus?: a song?: singing/ black! like mirrors and black! within it saying how here we go again with how the sun did me/ before i was born. how sturdy and taut this sunned-skin is. how apple-mouthed and coffee-bean. here we go again,/ i watch the cars go by my window with great longings of elsewheres. and fear. the red, white and blue flag-flashes,/ passing by glassily and hologrammed in front of me as the question of when, the question/ with the gun, here,/ horizoned./