poem: roundly we can hear

for wsb

yellow-haired girl calls
his name twice,
flips it in the air
like angular salsa,
bewitching the silences
in his head,
this curiouser of elegant
mammals, a vigilante
panda-bear of cushy
intensity, the oval
of nights you will find,
the care with which they
will find you too, baby bear,
all your vigorous
plim plom plum
hiding - but not too
generously, not too roundly,
we can hear your trumpets
calling, twixt the din of escape,
the patter of avalanches
in cerebral netherclimes:
you can accentuate,
you can contemplate,
you can dive under the regress
of your caveman blunders,
your sensitive tide-bearing eves
of consequence; calibrated
youth bears down with a dance
that mirrors the very notions
you malinger, the body's weakening
hindrances, the heart's
castaway filé gumbo, bop
till you drop,
teeny bopper in the whispering hazies,
capitulations in the kiss-on-your-listing,
epiphany in the south 40,
edification for your Tinkerbell salivations,
quicksilver messengers in the glimpse of your
offsetting
dressy casual
fit for the Elvis chapel glance.

poem: cosmetic blue down

big baleful bowl of brown-eyed salary
the kiss and tell mythic edges
singeing the palisades
selkie cliffs skimming
by the missing riddles
i keep my sensible fashions
closeted,
diverticular asymmetries, castaway
chops in the regal latitudes
velvet horn in your ear
can turn a phrase faster
than the fishy cheesy
presence in the Eyes of gods
down the Basse bus stops
filigreed digitation, if you
were asking the fools
to the right and left
you'd feel the evidence
rising
the situation settled out
& striped through
the compound vagaries
the distal cheeseheads
the cosmetic blue
down your bedroom lanes
& you might ask
& you might tell
but the general's widow
has vaguer plans afoot
& she's halfway up
your juicy dissertations
inside out
becomes the only way
to bring it back
to sing a furry tune
a sizing merrily forgot
tell me one more time
is the lissome true
imperil me with a glistening
truth
cash me in and skip
on down
your merry road.