billyfivecrows

two poems (04-09-'05)


1. improv while thinking of Frank O'Hara


List of things: blank and blank, a knife, another wife.

Never again equals maybe. Blue toenails and a prison

Made of butter. Wake me when it's over beginning.

Winning something for dove who has all is

Fruitless. Less fruit. More meat. Sweets and a vacuous

Freedom; a safecracker finds tooth too big for drill.

It's a thrill, sweet-pink viper dressing as the wrong nurse.

(True-done is the curse.
I've done emergency and "versus"
But never won the trick to learn
How to do it: how to run, how to

Return...)

***

2. last attempt at attracting butterflies

A square with
Two sides
Longer than
The other
Two are
Taller
With
Another
Similar
Smaller
Square
Inside. A

Dead zebra
Lying
On a
Pink
Sky resides
Inside
To bait

Dimension. Wing me

And I wont be

Jealous

Anymore, wont

(Will)

Rely
On my
Candle burning
Out, quickly, sleep

A quiet

Cloud...