Jackdaw

[2]

mind bend

turn towards the middle and catch the music

tears falling

[3]

carnival noise

the cathedral doors look as pregnant

as a wobbling pigeon

[4]

in pale december woods

old cabin greets reaching wild oak

as something about the light shivers

[5]

the case, the lawyer, the room

all gray

as toads

[6]

a man feeling for a knob

brushes a hand

and wife dead of yesternight

[7]

ocean rising

with it the wave

of all our names

[8]

“carry me off, i’ve seen too many stars!”

cried the dreamer to the stars, but the night

only tumbled down drunkenly, like dunked fishhook

[9]

walk on

leave the house standing on the edge of night

color everything red

[10]

beetles

drop everything

even themselves

[11]

lost

running scared to the left of the scarecrow

as an old man dumps fresh pitch onto the road