Signatures dipped in salt

two partners laughing hard

sky above the armchair

egg stained and stained glass shining

plaques of liquid gold.

Vibra-bubble where

we can't get out.

Shrink veiled inlet

pursed with rippled snow

linen licking the highway.

Screens barking at screens

sunk holograms of subway tunnel walls

the mind meld of water.

In the wonder of falling

a blossom unraveled in pale light

from retreating corners.

Wings clashing cross the moon

sleepers in a stunned mobile.

Wire boxes blaring their

sacred repetitions.

In a skeletal foot-prop

throne of moss, of spent bibles, of snow:

one runny eyelid

cups the spitting sun

my shadow walks a balcony that's gone

threads gather her wig like a golf course

one rotting name.

Watery apartments

bright windows in the steel air

my dawn wrecker

pussy vein umbrella

flapping bat wings

beneath a gelatin curtain

the fire lit machines

building dams

on dazed paint accruals

the eyes in battery acid

pushing overdrawn soul

my bed in the river's delta

a face of knobby fingers

vapor's cabin

in the canopy of bird rings

spout's rented cell.

If the cracked moon calls forth

the pouring children's voices,

let the sun wait

and the bright caves quake.

Queen's harvest

from what is slashed

away for tender places

where the synthesis blooms

like a cartoon chimera

long lost cloud arrangements

a buckled seal in the salt of light

arranged across a series of skulls

the look of familial eyes

from a great fire

all tile and ceramic glass

all stair-tossed lipstain

As the radioactive beauty

of days torn away

surfaces in small pools

and the blade of creation

flashes in diminished places,

let me be the hungry vessel

for what flies on Earth

the sledgehammer's secret kisses

and blood rain's hidden favorite

let my heart come so close to my wings

that the veins pour out

celestial floors

and vaporous couches.

In the dust shot diagonal shaft

where light descends

I see my dead cat

living and pawing

at an indecisive hair

and in the same fragmented stream

my heart attacked friend

welded to an armchair

pouting with the blood

that swirled him here

we steam with sweet disintegration

in the ribbon tied celestial

gasping rhythm of our gulping veins

this ocean sphere cannot deny

its omnipotent tongue

that the sky shares

and the ground redoubles

a dare

and all our air is clawed.

Deep in the rain

with a pale reflector

slashing nets that held

the errant soul

I double the rind

that grows from aching sweetness

buried in the cruelty

without a name

a denim sun

above the red barn engine

turns the finger ditches

to raging arms

grass blades of some god

that speaks in twitching drops

Slapped through the black rainbow

of harp strings

with a skeleton smile

birthed by light

inside the ruins

by the guts of the waterfall.

Fountains from the eyes

that died seeing

out of sync with their time.

Poisoned liquor dripping

on a maze of swords

grid gone from the landscape.

Levitated shadows

plucking electrified wire.

Peaks wincing from

their cracks of ice

across seething valleys

with the eyes they have collected

fleeing plans of bones

my court of ashen floors

rising to plateau

with wax lungs

scattered in smashed chains

around a swallowed fireplace.

Beetle wing sleds

cup coils of lips

anatomy of mouths

cojoined around the throated

cliff root.

The day goes down

to the infinite dark

dragging chains and bells.

Scarred by runaway cities

a plaid sky folds up

the neon vulvas

and phallic

filing cabinet towers.

God's fingers move

like snakes on the grey abyss.

Bright veins of electric light,

all the leaning dams

where I slept.

Bulbs cracked by cold

in a winter's soil

tarnished pans of clear

translucent blood.

The light of earth dawns

from a microwave door.

The tea drenched sky

opens its tongues on tar.

Lemon corsets

wink to green garters

on the body of one

who does not fade

having touched eternal eyes.

She plates the eggs

among fine cut flowers,

seaweed streamers

small mouths of salt

in the cracked ice.

For the sights and sounds lost,

for the love made that never lasted.

For the long lost songbird

who still plucks my nerves

from a bloody distance.

By living I come into death,

through no other entrance.

And she waits for me there,

with olives and the quills

of cloaked bones,

with eggshell eyelids.

She waits with a slit

in her metallic backbrain,

still feeding on what the milk

of my cells has offered.

And I go to her with

paint in my joints, with glue

and its contestant acid

wrapped around my blue

fingernails, in a shawl

of feathery worms,

calling her with the name

that my mouth has become,

a smoking pillar of salted wounds.

In the suck of time

I'm a ragged torso

pushed away from legs

and shoveling brains

while the waves gravitate

to one window

while the seams of the frame

fill with lips and split

in the newsprint flat land

I'm a cartoon juggernaut

bleeding from the hair thin lines

dead alphabets have laid down

this bucket mouth stilted on a salt stalactite

and gulping lightning

forked over to the furnace that knows my name

imprisoned catapult and scarp

this tongue lit cipher scrawling hard.

I've been sifted through

the walls of the world

until my eyes burn

out of my flesh

seeing the porous fade

of the usual lights

oozing in a pine glaze

drip of diseased planets

crossing the chutes of space.

Ships of rusted metal

lodged in sand

the sideshow of a fuming ocean

tossing up suits and keys.

Uncoupled from beauty

tarnished by its retreat

watching the chart of stars

crash into the spine

of a grey rectangle.

Surfed by blood

and an icicle's heat

for furrowed hands.

I've scattered kingdoms

in the dark where beauty spreads

rode the rubber sunlight

from an anchored candelabra

to the singing canyons of purple moss

kneeled under the vents

of giant mushrooms

breathing sweet and dirty tongues

slid through the crashed bones

and their flying skin

in a holocaust of dreams

and punished fauna

seen a demon's bleeding tailbone

as he leaped

my mouth ripped open

by the fragrant waterfall

and slime of divine rocks.