Steam spray tossed
up across the sand
a rail of jazz
from the pipes
& crushed cinderblock
Windwaves (a Chinese dragon tattoo)
I’m tumbling inside a washing machine on TV
with God doing the voice-over
bumming a smoke
There will be a silver snake
wrapped around yr wrist
in the ruins
darker along the sand & beach
concrete where the sky is
carrying a shotgun harpoon
& a book
a Bible (dark) or poems
& like the hammer of dreams
descends beneath the lamp
at street level
the skeleton of a Tibetan trumpet
mumbling drizzle
noodle precipitous
dank wherewhithall
Jack of Diamonds
in the raw damp serpentine
of sea-mist dawn