alas the heauy day: why do you weepe?
pitie
harken taketh heede
alas, both for t’ deed and for t’ cause!
heare (leisurely)
the allusive (alassive) phrase
passing yr words
wonder withe alas why Alaska sholde
share Helas! call to alarums! alms
Benedicite! reserving grief
certes wrapping it shiny-tight
writhing fighting gathering wits in guts
coude mene really anything!
stode in the Safeway parking lot as
floatplane roared agayns ocean
alas, vantage understode playne
ravens & seagulls, rain still falls (flatly faintly)
staring out of windows, whites of its paws
fog turns
blinks
green tresses of spruce trees
pink haze slicing needle hair
grass swells rain falls
pink haze of needle leaves
leave trees singing in rain
again rains rain fat globes of glob drops
cat crosses hops down calm
rain patting
world stands static
still think to own worlds
who owns nothing can be nothing
own nothing
alas know no thing
a new since world since here
Alaska they write
write unborn
words fat white globs of rain
rain down
head uncovered
hood mostly brown blown down
waking striking storefront
flames
carnage horror
unable to purchase neither milk nor cookie
Mother of Harold! saugh maide
strolling childe in carriage
alas! deathe
alas focalized object twisted
somtyme convoluted
focalized gaze tortuous fro cigarettes smoked too early (filterless)
perspective alle wrong
sheen of water behound store unysene
unsensed uncertyn sith salmon spawning
Creek Street armed salvation among the goosts
of hosbands & quenes hungry
ladies & germs in my bag
got me some turkey sandwiches
big ones healthy ones take one free if you’re hungry
got water too if you’re thirsty
no charge ladies & genitals
also want you to know I give a dollar
Alas! how deeply painful
is alle payment! anon
to each person I give a sandwich
alas shoulde one eate this
meete deathe this in the state of Alaska
this morning rosy-handy Donna
spreading tentacles round
warmly—that’s
#yolo cat dig that?
showers rain down today
showers rain mainly the entirety
all these doggone days
all Ketchikan day
these 100% “chance” of showers days
& when the sun shines forth breaking
base contagious clouds to smithereens
shrapnel scintillating on ocean blinds
hot rainbow embers
stiff skiffs for Xmas too
ravens (big as jets) & seagulls & eagles
rain weaves blankets of soliloquy
rain fingers snap
kissing eyes closed & leaves fat w/ white surrealism
holding K’s holytourismdollars
windows fogged
Ravens & eagles & seagulls
rain still falls (flatly faintly)
staring out of window
whites of fog paws
hardly sense rain
closing closer
cd sniff an end of sea life
whale road anemones
a game of poker w/ Mr Mayor
right next to the snails de-shelled & salted
pines grow right up against the tide
mists of ocean crawl up nostrils
Alaska when days slap again
offered one little life
& for but few days
art kills here save for crafts crafted handily
save those totems
of grandiosity narrating culture becoming
say AK can you believe in a year
one writing abt Foucault like one knew
he sat on one’s lap & blew one kisses
& Mr. Whitman which way does yr beard point in the arctic?
sick of watercolors
boozed here more ever
days in winter when brushed snow off stair banisters
w/ sleeve
sunset three o’clock
fickle fickle tone
deaf too
skiffs here bruise shins
when boarded sissy-style
DRUM dum dum DRUM
dum dum DRUM DRUM
dum DRUM dum dummmm
as if the day ever cd start earlier
sun-up hotel boats cargoed money
frontier bruised here & here
displaying shoulder & torso
& healed there & there
referencing noggin & stomach
mercy gets meaner
each night
town of stilts
among ravens eagles & the angles of rain
prompts gathering of wits in guts
lusting for beauty always
finding Alaska inherently inclusive to vagrants
& beauty of all shapes
OK OK OK AK
let’s shake
we’re of one grain
made the first incisions deep
now relax Alaska
rest yr big ol’ head
let’s make . . .
let’s make sleep
flatly faintly (warmly)