26 August 2010
30 April 2025
original poem included background image

slip

and in the peaceable
kingdom not the
porcelain
curve of your

waist
but the slip
between your lips
and your words

in the propinquity
that will become your
conscious
decision

I play
randomly
assigned and
assuaged

and over the
sere sighs
for the foundlings
that finger

your hem, you see
further than they
or I
either