Covered mountain steam
elk hiding in maroon quilts
bleeding dry beetle cracking under foot
divining a hot spot

garden and its civilized sprouts
your name under a flower, warden
resisting like spoiling eggnog
greedier than a fry cook ******* in a fresh battery
you try too hard to fissure, earth!
go grill a mammoth instead, like you used to
spend a decade in winter
three quarters of the year frigid without warning
another half day closing in on dynamite explosions
move rock fast! It's all part of this historic reckoning
I bet I could sludge through vapor faster than this

coiling around necks with ****** grasshoppers
you wreck the vision
demolish truck and worker with seeping fruit
orange is argumentative and smirking
defiant without law
turning back clocks in order to assemble without itself
memories...
smoldering in flame
crawling
I beseech thee
return the dagger into my flesh
it belongs with me like a medium
walk with wind in tandem
spurned onward to self-agonize
perpetuate your distance
eventual despair
in times of grace

you crumble too readily
like sands
you itch too regularly
like hands
you weep too messily

like mortar and pestle.
like the order that you wrestle.

engaged and contented
blatantly worth my while
winning was never so pitiful... (and pitiless!)