The Unclean Days 32–38
can take the nature by talking into it
roofline buzzard humps into sun
affective vision isn’t perfecting silence
each wing held as cascade
such version to which I hold tames me
come and symbolize me next january releases
notion of pilgrimage into the fingers through
eyes focusing just above stovepipe releases
into us both
^^^
inviolable screen trap owlet from her mouth
contrasts glass bell doubt in a physical sense
control of each other body I don’t like pattern
substituting for wind for starters to induce name
from chill and close it down “we are simply
not prepared for these motions” tell me again
what January means outside the houses’ sides
^^^
lead thought with finch
frozen at an instance
of tenderness exhumed
from morning in winter
lead thought with domination
fantasy
thinking otherness pales
in maple’s categorical limbs
lead with its markings’
mussed by investigatory
application of selves in weather
^^^
palm and lift part of her body away
modality death heaps on rosemary
frost-wilted on evil magicked limbs
nuthatches reveal white-crested I’m
now segueing into releasing information
about the images with charitable eye
^^^
how does one project “it was just fictions
at first” with immediacy onto the body
can you accept buzzard staggered
through scene as if out of railroad tracks
and imagery as perjury
^^^
unlight in quartz bits
questionnaire
demands remembering
hip surgically lit
it all began
^^^
small tension on right side of her neck
a couple of what I would call
restricted segments your lyric
comes out as nouns of the place
as displacements against roof of mouth
^^^
see death in rosemary’s bend as purpose
as exhausted eye ejected from hawk’s flight
^^^
(Dedalus)
snow’s collaborative I
first she swallows his finger
first he invents mechanism
by which she realizes her desire
first the invention of containment
houses the minotaur
snow’s then a screen disrupting
depth and field of vision
first we must leave off metamorphosis
first melting filter and dividing hand
snow isn’t cropped out
but convinced out
first snow’s invented and housed
in their throats
^^^
section on new stasis
carved the phoenix’s feathers
carry stasis
we’re getting this progression
of neutralization abduction boredom
proclaim my body in chill wind
to frost-killed dahlias
and sun-creak from maples
esophageal swelling and gusts
my breath
workers accommodating fingers
and information and medicine
dying I’m doing raids divot
in mutable shoulder
^^^
throats through holly
mockingbird architecture
radial limbs sub-limbs
barrel space against
white wing feathers
disrupted protein spirits
bird from sight into forward
facing thighs disconnects
legs beneath me
^^^
madness they use which ghosts each snowflake
after I oppose body itself what remains in the eye
sickness quicks touch I’m thinking of Hercules
deep they say as a class with sunlight backing their heads
skulls
can we move to a specific touch between humans
auroral break in the sense of taking just light from the air
^^^
two cardinals spiral into azalea
basing snow on memory radial I
wheels necessity now preps
body for submission simple
swallowing motion in face of wind
never has this eye been so clean


