garden in which a dune is behind each bluebell,
a clay tablet written into each yarrow stem
enlightenment,
whose machinery could fail?
forest lives characterized
as greater than or less than reason
as plus or minus error
as exodus into clearings, therapies of flora,
anthills of unidentified consciousness
words the floodgates of a people
buried under Ararat, a hexagram turns up,
'a wolf's time to lie down with the lamb
is gainsaid from the lamb'
the wood of the house a skeleton,
the heat of the house a spiritual work reformed
from an ark accommodating all varieties
of spectator plants & animals
(the minerals absent themselves
in warning barrages & convoluted gems)
water circulating the city, the inner & outer city,
in renovation of mortal drought
& naked moraines: 'this lake
one day in the future shall you take as wife,' haggling
to bring milk & honey up from a short growing season
to the tongues chosen for this place
(lacks rail, steam, canal,
while the beautiful horsepower could never starve,
sugar of oasis fruit crystallizes on property allowing it
to be scavenged without a patent
the mountains, emotional barriers to Job's suicide,
whose yellowing undergrowth is a rumor
of destiny corrosive to brotherhood,
scrapped into factories
where Eve lingers in design & in object, an ash
at the backdoor, bearing no book
the king x led each flowering species into his demise,
periods of purple & gold abandon the geography of the fathers,
trade routes heavily overlay changing daylength,
from a pomegranate in Paphos
an angel contemplates disempowerment of starches
laws of heat are claimed prophetically,
strong, weak, electromagnetic, gravitational
formula drama, practical instrument,
geometric plumb, anti-drama,
voluminous results in preparation how & while it can
'alive til the ghostly birch withdraws'
draws lines on untreated paper hurriedly
aways away from the first day