AnnMarie Eldon

cue 2

a hegemony of bulrushes this way no
stiff rout but some slight triumphant
bending against a wind more hushed
than meaning to

likewise yesterday's love, all external
with the faintest bendings conglomerated
but beautiful as if that word silk wrapped and
dreamed down into sum

today has come like the creeping now river
tide, half imperceptible according too
the higher sensate order yet

inevitable as all eventuals must
as all dreams become

background and the incessant must, a
damp emptiness where neck arch indents
made any hitherto privacy
rheumy and needy and vocalized; thus

do birds rise who do

presses that cannot be stored; the fact
that only drips are left and at best dried-away, bodies
on the living-room corner-screen
a multi-humps gestalt

pain always left out no matter
what the sky appears
as if of Nazareth
a good code to
swear by

The Recursive Haecceity of Forgiveness

There are subterfuges,
................latent, across carpet. Singular
hair, once heads; skin by its nature entopic, how
hidden........................................as weft,
....................................................as
warp. ............................................She pans through panes to
ground thistles’ flowering remains and remembers
wet and vest and puts on specs and
goes out to inspect ......................and
finds intrepid cinquefoil creeping alongside her best efforts
tries to disembroider past from now: postpartum apples
..........................................................pears was wasp bitten
......................................her own hair a nest. At rest back
to inside. To front some sort of death
in the terrible tryingness.
Leftovers, akairic she supposes as the 19.08
kettles on a balmy slight south-south-west.
Detergent suds she pets
lets touch her
cheek
begets him his conspicuous ambition/logically circular defences
bagged and hung like pheasant waiting stink. Passed.
Trepid spots where grease met children’s finger tips
soggy, indiscreet substances
goose grass stickies.
Tired

..........a fog, a betrayal
dog-eared promises. ........................................................ Yet

heady 'memberences.
Eyes heft.
Smitten.
Softing planes, blames rewritten.
And sex, sex, always sex.
Blessed really with arms
at the ready
...even on the brink
....and at last, steady
......and steady and
...............steady.