HERE

An ancestral wheat scrambles the coming dusk. The guarded expressions of a waitress 

frustrate customers’ moods. 

Steel sides for a folding chaise longue 

with polypropylene ribbons and thighs bemoaning. The trailered boat slightly dirty— 

there are concerns. 

A page collapses under an oscillating fan. Bed clothes the color of a flu. 

Once more they sustain the load of it. 

Because the dumped shell fragments 

covering a cul-de-sac press their bare feet. They’re driving without shoes. 

Kids rush through calisthenics 

before bed. 

Downward the garden flexes 

with each puce burst on the leaves interrupted to colorless, shot, pissing. 

And animals rove to destroy. 

The outdoor shower shatters quills 

on a rubber mat. 

Each adult improvises and medicates  

and jams his ghost into others’ changing.

RADIATOR 

Winter nails the filmy snow. An eager sound carries through piping snores. 

For what seems like a mission the couch sweats. 

Breakfast marshmallows 

slither and decompose into particles. 

Importance hates the skin 

of the frost. 

It pretends with goblins 

and chauffeurs because 

it no longer remembers.