(Name withheld 1981)
Room length wood bar, bar
Length mirror back, booze
Pours, prep boys,
Steak knife slots,
-Koch, Krivit, Stormy,
-Tree, Brad, Howard, Tim,
-Rock, Andy,
-Janis, Bill;
Eyeballs suspended
In wire sockets
Unsparing
Detachment,
-Three sites, thrice circled,
-Sitters clocked, sit on
-Cocks of, known,
-And renowned;
Green bottles, held out,
Sweat droplets, blue smoke
Launched toward the
Ceiling vents,
-Male heads populate
-Perimeters, weave
-Among men
-In crescents;
(Fanned out) Heineken,
Perrier, Woolrich,
Levi's, Hanes,
Timberland,
-Tongue plunges, fingers
-Twist, hand travels to
-Establish
-A foothold;
Yellows, eddies on
Side street pavement, and
Splashes as
Taxis pass,
-Shadows shout out, then
-Murmurings, measured
-Footsteps, paired,
-Lone siren;
Surplus mannequins,
Watch caps, striped scarves, pea
Coats, double
Breasted, black,
-Cold night's breath, fleeting
-Spectral conjectures,
-Penciled sketch
-Which feints lines;
Lights flicked, coats, - pockets
Bulked with caps, scarves, gloves-
The gauntlets
Slung on chairs,
-Dueling images,
-This, vulnerable
-Soul, rendered
-On fibers;
An unveiling, his
Pedestal knocked, the
Model falls
On his back,
-Petals pulled apart,
-Anther proffers it's
-Tracery's
-Prized granules;
Posed through periods
Pipe circulated
Hot, toilets
Flushed, trash dropped,
-Resuscitate, mouth
-On mouth pressed, stroking
-Cheek, hair strands,
-Finding eyes;
After, December,
Expression clothing
What dangled
Between legs,
-Fairytale ice prince
-Floated out to see,
-At end of
-Story bored.
14 July 2016
Room length wood bar, bar
Length mirror back, booze
Pours, prep boys,
Steak knife slots,
-Koch, Krivit, Stormy,
-Tree, Brad, Howard, Tim,
-Rock, Andy,
-Janis, Bill;
Eyeballs suspended
In wire sockets
Unsparing
Detachment,
-Three sites, thrice circled,
-Sitters clocked, sit on
-Cocks of, known,
-And renowned;
Green bottles, held out,
Sweat droplets, blue smoke
Launched toward the
Ceiling vents,
-Male heads populate
-Perimeters, weave
-Among men
-In crescents;
(Fanned out) Heineken,
Perrier, Woolrich,
Levi's, Hanes,
Timberland,
-Tongue plunges, fingers
-Twist, hand travels to
-Establish
-A foothold;
Yellows, eddies on
Side street pavement, and
Splashes as
Taxis pass,
-Shadows shout out, then
-Murmurings, measured
-Footsteps, paired,
-Lone siren;
Surplus mannequins,
Watch caps, striped scarves, pea
Coats, double
Breasted, black,
-Cold night's breath, fleeting
-Spectral conjectures,
-Penciled sketch
-Which feints lines;
Lights flicked, coats, - pockets
Bulked with caps, scarves, gloves-
The gauntlets
Slung on chairs,
-Dueling images,
-This, vulnerable
-Soul, rendered
-On fibers;
An unveiling, his
Pedestal knocked, the
Model falls
On his back,
-Petals pulled apart,
-Anther proffers it's
-Tracery's
-Prized granules;
Posed through periods
Pipe circulated
Hot, toilets
Flushed, trash dropped,
-Resuscitate, mouth
-On mouth pressed, stroking
-Cheek, hair strands,
-Finding eyes;
After, December,
Expression clothing
What dangled
Between legs,
-Fairytale ice prince
-Floated out to see,
-At end of
-Story bored.
14 July 2016