The Rycoffs have planted blood-red batface along the edge of the walk.
\nThey will get all the hummingbirds and butterflies<\/p>\n
Next year. Push play. Of course I have to mention how my mind
\nDoes not want to mention<\/p>\n
This entire night, underscored by Wilco\u2019s lines
\n\u201cI’d always thought that if I held you tightly \/
\nYou’d always love me like you did back then\u201d
\nOmits, as Mayakovsky would call her, the target.
\nMy son, Bay, and I, walk past Thing 1 and Thing 2.
\nHow many ballerinas<\/p>\n
Does one expect to see walking the streets this late at night?
\nDeath is always on the prowl: the near miss of Rusty<\/p>\n
By the Home Depot truck in New York City
\nBrings the near misses back today:<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
My idea of the soul is a dance party with palm trees
\nWrapped in foil. Dancing is flying and the music<\/p>\n
Always sounds like the first time you heard the Talking Heads
\nCombined with the second time you listened to Velvet Underground\u2019s
\nSelf-titled album all the way through.<\/p>\n
My third eye takes naps. Nods off without warning.
\nRight now, I am asleep with two eyes open.<\/p>\n
The hunchback of Notre Dame answers the door of the house<\/p>\n
At the corner of Harbor Cove and River. The inmate, in his prison
\nStripes, holds his one-year-old son, also in prison stripes.<\/p>\n
The scantily clad prison guard swings her billy club.
\nOh never to be stuck in commuter traffic again.<\/p>\n
We all learn, eventually, \u201cdon\u2019t read the comments.\u201d
\nMinions have taken over the neighborhood.<\/p>\n
A witch doused in gauze cackles<\/p>\n
From her corner of the walkway; a skeleton sits on our bench
\nDoing its best impression of William Logan, right leg
\nCrossed over left, right arm stretched out to the right, skull
\nTilted to 11, chin and right toe pointed to 4.<\/p>\n
A bottle of hand sanitizer, almost empty, cranes its neck
\nOver the edge of the second edition unabridged Webster’s
\nNew International Dictionary, 1958.<\/p>\n
Paul Manafort walks by dressed up as a train engineer.<\/p>\n
The Rycoff family, dressed as the knights of the round table,
\nRing the doorbell of the largest house in the neighborhood.
\nThe head of the HOA, a former porn star, shows up at the party
\nAs a 2007 IRS tax audit of Jeff Sessions. A guy with a bonfire
\nWheel in his driveway hands out Heinekens. Push stop.<\/p>\n
The definition of a circle in a world without geometry
\nSources its etymology from the fleeing prisoner, innocent
\nDespite all the charges, born in Cand\u00e9, France, a short drive
\nFrom the Coll\u00e8ge de Combr\u00e9e where he learned<\/p>\n
How to love an older woman. Where she and her sister
\nTook him after the school day was over, but time allowed.<\/p>\n
\u201cNever trust the living,\u201d said Juno, played by Sylvia Sidney,
\nIn Beetlejuice.<\/p>\n
The line, a set of lines, intersecting Sumi lines, outline<\/p>\n
The idea of the face of a ram, ink drops like mistakes, like eyes,
\nLike the image of planets in a solar system, like orbits,<\/p>\n
Like the beginning moment that determines the weight of a line:
\nSamhain, the stray red balloon, the \u201csomebody start something.\u201d<\/p>\n
I dressed as a wolfman, Bay, a wolfboy. We howl because we howl.
\nThis is the root of how the moon turns us. The skeleton in the red shawl
\nEscorts us to the courtyard. There in the 18th card, an owl in the tree
\nSees two wolves calling down the partial moon.<\/p>\n
There in the distance the Sierras wait all winter.
\nA mastiff dressed in a tuxedo walks by, pauses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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