I.
Take soft heed and knead the dough of minds,
flesh of this very epoch, all my very own, a
bleary tongue whispering the jazz of sorrow and
left stumbling thru rows of apple trees in the pitch,
skeletons in the moonless, starless void,
to heave over shoulder into the industrial waste well
dashed hopes, eggs, weeds, tissues,
to be picked up at Time Indeterminate.
The rosy cheek of delusions that know so little of the tender underbelly.
II.
Take soft heed and knead the dough of minds,
flesh of this very epoch, all my very own, a
bleary tongue whispering the jazz of sorrow and
left stumbling thru rows of apple trees in the pitch,
skeletons in the moonless, starless void,
to heave over shoulder into the industrial waste well
dashed hopes, eggs, weeds, tissues,
to be picked up at Time Indeterminate.
The rosy cheek of delusions that know so little of the tender underbelly.
omit spins
omit landing
insert inbreath
omit direction
omit fade
insert presence
III.
Take soft heed and knead the dough of minds,
left stumbling thru rows of apple trees in the pitch,
skeletons in the moonless, starless void,
to heave over shoulder into the industrial waste well
to be picked up at Time Indeterminate.
The rosy cheek of delusions that underbelly.
IV.
Take soft heed and knead the dough of minds,
left stumbling thru rows of apple trees in the pitch,
skeletons in the moonless, starless void,
to heave over shoulder into the industrial waste well
to be picked up at Time Indeterminate.
The rosy cheek of delusions that underbelly.
insert languid curl
omit sharp breaks
omit closed doors
V.
caged and wingéd things,
of sorrow and
left stumbling thru rows of apple trees in the pitch,
to heave over shoulder into the industrial waste well
to be picked up at Time Indeterminate.
The rosy cheek of delusions that underbelly.