roll on

I.
tear-welling sting
inside
nicotine calm surrounds
my eyes

II.
Sunday was
longer than the
day you died

III.
sea air dances
on seagull wingtips

IV.
the rooster waits for me to finish
dreaming

V.
oboes sound
like a tired
lecture

VI.
metallic guitar
notes plucked
drift

VII.
she sees red
apples drop
she wants to fly

VIII.
oil-slick
algae bright
with sun

IX.
jaundiced
evening sun
feeble as a
knife-edge

X. (softshoe)
scratching scritching
leather on sand on concrete
delights the children of tourists


XI.
foggy silence
hovers between
pages of the musty
reference section

XII.
people in raincoats who don't care
wait for a bus to take them away

XIII.
sounds of morning
many
help spread the many
hues of day


XIV.
wanting more
wind giggles through
her hair

XV.
I step off
cold slate
platforms-
her eyes

XVI.
giving in
to curses,
invocations,
an obese freedom

XVII.
dressed in
a loose fitting
sky drips
from His hands

XVIII.
a polished
purple laugh
rings out

XIX.
a young girl
traced by the
sharpened morning sun-
arms limp.

XX.
she shakes dreams from her
hair (like) epileptic lighting

XXI.
he takes his gloves off
to shake with hands
moist with guilt