the caviar’s o-shaped home, mimicking and magnifying the salt-cured
roe, not home as home is home, but home as the body’s container,

not body as body is body, but body as part-object, as breast is part-
object and part of the orthography of desire; the nacre spoon
echoing necro, as if a secretion is a death, what is sent outside of

oneself, an odor undetectable by one’s own nose; the o-shaped cap

of death cap mushrooms and false death caps, the o-shaped cap
of the club-footed clitocybe and the brown roll-rim, the o-shaped

cap of the burnt pancake of the forest, the red cracking bolete,
compared with the sheathed woodtuft, a topographic map clinging
to tree stumps, compared with the parasitizing giant polypore;

the stretched o of the toilet’s seat and the delight of drinking

water at the same time as releasing water, a circuit; once, on
Oregon’s coast, near Devil’s Kitchen or Devil’s Punchbowl or

Devil’s Backbone, the off-white skull of a cormorant, the body
a display case waiting to be emptied, the skull now an ornament
beneath a globe of an antique earth; the oldest globe of the New

World engraved upon the conjoined halves of an emptied ostrich

egg, the engravings around the equator obscured by glue, the sphere
itself imperfect; an oval face in an oval mirror ostensibly softening

a square room; ouzo selected over limoncello or chartreuse only
because it has a cloud to coax out, a maid-less water-made milk;
see also the rice-envy of orzo, the puddle-envy of the orgy, pure

melt, an oboe parading as a more or less beautiful duck, see oleo;

oakum obtained by untwisting old rope becoming other than rope;
what one seeks out to make herself, too, impenetrable, unimpreg-

nable, an old self shed and repurposed like oakum, soul-caulked,
if ensouled; octane and other hydrocarbons, the cigar-shaped
molecule of octane described as caterpillar-shaped; methane, butane;

high-octane fuels exist, fuels and the obliteration of engine knock;

octane and the invention of an agency for environmental protection;
ovations for innovations; outgoing breath riding the back of in-taken

breath, like, in the outback, a koala emerged from pouch to mother’s back;
the Northern Lights inside an opal if not inside an autumn night