on thousands of faint stars
these insomniacs are made of two layers
of frost, and windblown sand
renewed every three days
and thawed by microwave
two pairs of wings armed
with hairy brushes, cast to the low clouds
while revolution roared
through the streets of finery, a bowerbird
decorating a courting area.

Bright gas and dark dust above a small church
in total solar eclipse.
If the fish does not come, clouds and the moon
slide from film-pack adapters and plate-hold
jumping jack kind of girl, shades
of white and pink to become saucer-shaped,
bright golden stamens try
to do it up pretty-girl fashion,

Leaves medium silvery pink green, semiglossy
very double; below their eyes, they have
two pits centered, evenly petaled
canes very thorny. Motorcycles and dune buggies
pattern flow of blood in sagging skin
a dark gray cardboard or claws on its food
to spillers and plunge
the circular paths of the water part
taller than the waves
a clean white wall