nasty business
from a promontory
stands in wet white linen
floats down to ships
on streets and alleys
touring
in scenery and repose
viewing rooms
Tag: charles street
pinned duck balling
clipper captains roll shot
to divers rigging-strung overbow.
muggsy uncle robbie delbert frock
transform iron foul flesh
into echoing cedar
smooth bright polished wax
and then
a most modern bowlery
smallball sanctuary
with the devils of the sea
oxblood coral crushedstrawberry
rose runninginto ruby
paperthin bluesky mirrorbright snowplaintivewhite
sky between cloudsafterrain
fisheggs dewsprinkled
deadleafpurple
blackyellow blueblack gold
eelsblood paleblue
veins orangepeel shiveringice
oilywhite darkolive rainbowluster
applegreen pearldew
yellowcream palechocolate
cinnabar charcoal goldsprinkled
teadust ironrust
sunsteel
greenvioletblack copper
copper bluegreen
rosewhite turquoiseblue
yellowearth
terracotta
twilight skypure watercalm settingsun sparklingriver
whitemarblestained sapphiresea lateautumn
stormhiddensunbathed rayguilded
meltingsnow leadensky
dullyellowsky curdlingfog
whitecap blackcoat greensatin redblood troddensnow
lightdark infinite
random chosen
roger brooke taney
your honor you are unbalanced
your unhinged brain dangling forward toppling over
oxygen deprived
filled with misconception
an inquisitor utterly lost
disgrace hangs all about you in long deep folds
pressure
raise the stick like a hero
hold it in both hands high and mighty
hurl it clattering across the square
decide and act neither one nor the other
but both in dynamo
lot 19
whatsoever person or persons within this province
shall blaspheme god
shall be punished with death,
no person professing to believe in jesus christ shall be troubled.
we studied the glory of god in assurance of victory.
a choir sings at lot 19
that he comes with trumpets proclaiming
and every island and sea and mountain shall flee away.
iroquois say we return thanks to the sun
