Sticky Bread Gets Sliced{Forties 108}

Sticky decomposition web   riparian cacti’s vulnerable pollen
nothing-disconnécted crowned with magenta   really swimming in meaning
the general   concréte   bówl      an ángel-structured ethereal body turned-’roúnd
ineffable expectation empty and deep   awakening from tension’s   unfulfilled wishes   nautilus 
    pottery’s subterfuges   times of folded foliage rose in lamplight      beside
reflected space around it

Paving stones’ emotion apparently saturated      the smallest part or idea of it physical
spiral wind of Alpine photons easily-prodúced   Leviathan sígnified
transparent octagonal castles   given by heightened   logic’s   phenomenal pool
intrinsic raín-tree attention materialised tilting a statue’s camouflaged amorphous
    misconception   formally transmitted   ostensibly endocrine
bleéding from there

Layers of watching intercapillary glowing or a fluid silvery evident line perfused by nature
generic decisions of riverine rocks or valuable trunks of luminous elms
a system’s edges alive or dead or a fenestrated melon’s hormonal horizon
a fantail of petals   woven precisely in a fabric of respiratory touch   lighting the night   a
   gourd inside a spray of blood   meeting an insulated frond of paper
another just planted

Like a switch remembered again   like a clandéstine búmper thrown ín
her story drips   but thóse dogs are over   you lasted yet too soon
riding back quickly   step by step   who doésn’t in the middle in a vague kind of way
ín there a little bit   conglomerating-up-a-staírcase   don’t erase
    an explosion full-stríde   abstemious as mist after laughter
nothing to recognise

Paranoía-budgets’   thick collisions   hopelessly return
English water over feathers in the nothing like success
waiting like time outside translation and cómparable wonder
jumping out of the surge of eyes through unexpected floods      relinquishing fashion
    but leaving two trees forsaken
with the sense of never enough

Stupid hairs piled under and around expérience-cuts
exhumed   human going      never filled or ever flowing away
the philosopher dropped through the mud   over and over
the rope   wrapped   tíghtly ’round the tintinnabulum narrowing down   already
    jumping   cupped   deposed and awake beneath the blanket
as if there were no vector

If the ceiling were mirrored in yanks or lurches tossed offbéat
with no other choice but running in unfamiliar contiguity      in blanks
that poverty and the times demand between the particular sexes
in the dwindling middle ground      snow falling-úpward   waíting-for-them      loved
    for its silence   sleeping ferociously through the whole wórld
answering the passionless alarm

Over the simplest matter’s continuity   wearing heavy shoes
áttributes lose their objects      with the distant urge to-give-cháse
a-room-of-spare-párts   with tresses across the fascinated floor
vermilion porcelain coiffures with service discontinued imagine   filling the doorways 
    in progress’s orbit
howéver the bread gets sliced

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New York: 16-19 March 1994; 25-29 October 1995; 2-3 February 1996.