14 July 2025
mood dictionary
in the stars and wind
emblems, logos, signs of signs
fraught anachronisms, historical pastiche
take your pick before you bend
to the parallel imaginary wind… inaudible,
invisible, untouchable… it exerts no pressure
on any skin or drum or thumb
a purple-sounding x in perplex
a hear-here for complex
or see-here for your startled
yes! behind question-marked goggles
it’s a valedictory misadventure
to treat all art the same
as i would not if I had but the grace
to name things as they are
and number them in sequence, too
and remember them (the hardest bit)
and trot them out in any circumstance
called for by this host of witnesses
these clouds, these beams, these glances, lies