for Daphie (by sean s)

I.
Sitting down to this -- what is always
the first thing?

OMG WTF am i DO ing i have NO thing
nothing.

Patience.


II.
Patience.


III. Tips For Better Sleep
Even moresothan that list of Do Today, there is, before dousing your lights,
Did.


IV.
The sunlight outside is cold and dry. Shadows
of birds flit

over the windowpanes, ghosts of this moment.


V.
In times of drought, or frozen lakes, consider
your head, along the back and sides
is sticky, soft, stretched.
Perhaps pink.
Unpull it.
Pluck through it like a schoolteacher's songpractice
drifting upstairs through the floor.


VI.
A hoodie and coat to take out the trash
before the latticed silhouette of that bare tree abetting the lake.
My frozen lake.

Your purse under your arm,
and off you go, taking steps like the back of your head.

needle trading off (grief is good)

>>>"Piece Work" (Laura Mullen>>>LisaP, JKD) &

>>>"Gold" (RQ)

porous pin cushion plum outta autofills

which hole to plug, which’n gets pricked,

it’s a rhetorical o ring dummy pattern

shit trap not to speak (to), see, know

whatchr lookn at cephalothorax pin the tail

yumdummie like child candieneck

lace blind center stuffed stapled bloke

hokeypoke folded fold it’s a it’s a

it’s a hopskotch, watchnknow where

yr toes go, patch pieces, bleedwork

which box to stick, which ball to kick

one up one down open close frontward

fwhap! black right leftbehind yellow

nomo advent advantageous calendar

seasoned f'n greedy taker no no no more 

seams line up ahead flaggn signless to

stop automatic capitalization defining

default autopilot muslin itchy dressie

bessie once upon a bassackwards time

(scratch/   balls)     
bun(ga) bun(ga) lady
it's someone else's turn.

NEW: Gold by Rufo Q

Oh good grief, Benozzo Gozzoli, it's

like looking at a photo of yourself

as a child: where did it all go wrong?

There was a world of cushions once, before the C.E.O.

was stapled by his tongue to the toilet-bowl.

Oh sing that lullaby again, Good Grief,

the golden one.