undulating
could
get you DQ’d
A
showing of hands
flickering
red neon No Vacancy
Thomas
De Quincey
(Pale
turquoise in the shallows
gets
darker the farther out you go)
Smashed
windows in the ocean rush
settling
into cracks in the pavement
a
heel of sidewalk
groaning
with albatrossian hang-time
bedecked
with seaweed brocade
Eric
Dolphy “On Green Dolphin Street”
(with
a rail of mist tuning E-strings in the eucalyptus
a
definite maybe
14 April ‘13