I would have expected more from you
From someone I thought was an expert
Were you ever really a technical writer
You said you were a technical writer
But you said should
Technical writers don't say should
Maybe I wasn't clear about what I wanted
I'm so anxious I'm shaking right now

;with spare as (
me the red white and blue
flogged too
) , dereliction as (
runs just so deep
traverses hemispheres
), supine as (
foam contoured migraine
suppresses little squeals
), bare as (
legs thighs fair bottom
dared hope
), kind as (
physician’s astonished oath
materialized nowhere
), **** as (
hired hand approved
this scout for camp
)
select flying colors
;

Lake folk don’t get us swamp people
spit it like an insult
say drain it
mock her swamp ***
write don’t let your data lake become it
a dump where it all flows in and
none of it flows out
it shouldn’t take a data scientist
to know that’s a salt sea *******
go drain a different metaphor
take an unstructured Saturday
let old black tea
rain run off to steep in Cyprus leaves
learn you to forget
learn you on its knees to
spec out a filter
think you could march across
this neon ****
without soggy socks
look away
sink in with spirits of sorely missed runaways
husbands to humble azaleas
pompous camellias
shepherds to growling gators
shy snappers
hissing cottonmouths
beneath chartreuse buzzard whirlpools
while a redheaded woodpecker encodes clus.ter.****.
while a blue jay screams thief! Thief!
for nobody but me too listening
tunnel through gray beards
machines lynched dead in live oaks
saunter from Four Holes to the lazy Edisto
meander to meet her shady cousins
an ACE up three sleeves
past ***** waving fiddler *****
freshen up the breakers
then tell me you do not find lovely
my Lowcountry’s languid spleen
;

;with Breeze (
bend Marshgrass over 4
eucharisted Elder
@ Sabbath’s dusk
sticky with faltered aspirate
)
, Gator (
of Church Creek
puts on Puppy’s skin
scampers up over Oyster’s blades
)
select 1 *****
from pack
roll beneath brackish Tide
;