Tigre

Tigre

the rooftop dog

was lofty,


physically,

mentally

and

SPIRITUALLY!

At Sea

Night sneaks in like a manatee,
a large cryptic body beneath an

infinite pin-pricked sky.

I slide the anthracite
jacket slowly over my shoulders

and drift with the tide.

Dead fish wash up onto the shore,
lidless eyes like constellations.

I think I see my pegasus.

Kiwi

Perhaps,
I'm a baby

dinosaur

trapped in
a man's body.

I'm a hellhound
for a bowl of

fruit.

I'm an angel
with canines to tear

flesh.

I'm running
from the

darkness,

so I must
be in the

light.

The light
is the

carnival

body of
an asteroid

and

I'm coming
home for dinner.

Animals

I love you

and want you

to know

that I get

all emotional.

Please take care of the dog.

Please feed the fish.

The gecko needs to be fed

live crickets powdered in a calcium

supplement. I'm afraid

that their bones

will become brittle,

that they will

all become

mashed-up

behind some distant

wall

of

Stone.

Cryptoidal Mania

*
The jagged
skeletal debris

of yard fauna.

The shadow
of a great ape

possibly.

*
The congregation
is shocked--

beneath

the faces of the river.

1993

It's a bummer
not to have
padding under
the carpet,

but it's really
not an issue.
It's my slow
spinning record

of a body,
no needle
to remind
my skin

of the touch.

I used to wax-
remedial as a kid.
The lyric sheets
of tape cassettes

unfolded
all around me.
I wipe a tear
from my eye and

smile because
I look like a wild cat
with my hair

way up high.

Alone, but Not

The three round
burn marks on
your inner thigh.

"Devices...

...seen

"in the river valley..."

"eyes like vacant lochs...

lights."

Your birthplace,
the stuff of ancient maps,
a lost wav. file.

"removed...

...to cultivate."

...the cryptic nature..."

"primate mutilation...

"of a...


"...triangular incision."