the cinematic sense

in Kansas

therefore

lawncare points to

magazine racks

microwave

instructions while

the funeral

traffic passes

the short wave

radio junkie

the tourist

in a Sox cap

a pretty quiet

column

of cars &

acres

of restlessness

___

how many states

can you clearly sing

Melville the criminal

in Maine by a wood

stove maybe a donut

& a hotel pen water

works the mountain

in a more

dignified language

even urban parcels

usurp the bleak

translation

paintings

in a drug store

that frame

the human

irrelevance

to land

masses good-bye

I waved

to the names

of mountain flowers

___

villainous handkerchief

of coastline

& crabtraps buckled

with miles of lilies

& lost socks

in Delaware

Leslie turns the music up

how does one country

prepare

for invasion

or strap a border

with an angry smell

pieces

of the moment

stay to gender

perception

& nourish

the air

with authorship

for the dead

___

a poem's nation

hitchhikes between chapels

is lonely

between structures

trades the postcards

from Arkansas

for the ottoman

for free

strains of gates

course

at the landscape

where we lock

is poorly

heard