Two excursions from a phrase
Skosh to six. Dawn is one
hundred thousand women
with candles in the field.
White dresses, see through
to bones. The hex of sight
fixes me to the map
of here: belong, wind
recommends in the keen
of its can’t. Don’t believe
this shit, I’m just wording
awake. The truth sounds deep-
ly unsaid. Words erase
what they speak. A poem’s
a muzzle.
Skosh to six. Dawn
is the words “dawn
is the words.” Until I say,
no see. Seems. Why else
this inveterate lingual
scrumming? Head’s
head’s only subject.
Of course, sailors know
head’s a shitter too. So far
to go, to get from here
to here. Wind wends
from lost to skin
to mouth to lost. A poem’s
a sail
(billowed).