I won’t care

Bonnie had brown hair Bonnie had no care the night was
right for forgetting If I ever can feel the queer fear of
surrender I will have answered the mellow cheer of ages
that never answer or ask the fellow who pleases to seal
the keg is awash in emery jungles of temple doom why do
the angels avenge & send endless miasmas is a weird word
why does everything tighten why is blocked in never
saying if feeling were a way it would never fear itself
but answer all comers with grace abandon all cares the
answer is dear to my heart which can never erase Linda’s
hurt yet I live I try to elevate my slave heart I try to
stand under giants who are only friends unmasked Annie is
a girl who has brown hair & does her job she is plain &
pretty plain & pretty girls are nice but in mystery dreams
beauty is exquisitely terrifying like eyes of the night
where werewolves dance in blond wombs & tear their eyes
with hatchets because we die even though we claim that’s
what werewolves want a flower is another answer that also
dies but is not having been a brave act of stature statues
may speak to us of truth But they are there for us & we
are there too How many false looks have I been I cannot look
at the number of years I feared freedom I hope to fall
under the face of the pace of light & laugh while everyone
who is they are scandalized I won’t care I’ll rise to the
surface of a plain girl’s heart & be at peace with death
which has no hair but is plain & pretty

high coups

trying to be adventurous
you never learned
the lonesome roads

    *
you appear
using silken cords
with your eyes
Spring Festival
mirroring Void

    *
to float on
the pearl’s skin –
but I don’t see!

    *
distant thunder
twisting approach
concubines eating
tamarinds
laden with moments

    *
red mists
mountain pass
curious gauze
catching
on melodic bark

    *
dusk in crannies
sheltered courtyard
      moon
            lute
                  outside
the tangles unwind

    *
stately drum
grasping
unspeakable
humor

    *
tender
waterfall
brush against
Great Desert

    *
little cabin
anonymity
achievement
fanning out

    *
finding balance
in the clarity
of shoots