Because she brought poetic dealings to a dizziness that wins the whole discourse. Rhyme eats the words. ---Henri Meschonnic, “Rhyme and Life”










Let’s admire the jewel itself.
(Don’t outfit nothing)


Civilization! Own farmlands
Places purveyor


Cut-out present in past
Dangled earrings




















‘How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria,’ 2011


for JD




w/the help of description,
# of parts


(swimming, sexual passion)
w/the help of furniture


92


We did it ahead of time,
leavings houses positions


Stretched outside information
To never seeing clearly


Spare outlook abstracting
(in the hills, w/the sound)




















Hieronymus Atomic
should question us:


Did any? Oh yes
What I like enough


Other kinds of revenge
Laugh wrong, not take it


One’s throat goes,
occasions




















for RBDP


In that case, showcase
There’s gonna be a showdown


Best-seller industrial stories, concealed
study group, coarse ostensible surface


Red neon subterfuge of speaking
Text faces on view, undercover


Trouble point of worlds, life looks
something in the face (military landscape)


Sublime, geostationary
Organized on the one frontier


Displayed in a vitrine
Close luminous tracks or limits


Make any reading opaque
underwriting its politics




















Popular life one looks across, makes perfectly natural
The end language—chew the ends,


walk to whatever, specialty life
Finally more than Frenchified (prosody, couplings)


3rd contraction follows
Larger wavering mode seems possible


—b/c it cheats.
Strangely confident century