Further Strategies for Trapping the Dead

A perilous poetics balanced in a doorway

feet up     its shadow

thus an ad hoc tarot poetics

An acquisitive poetics in a range

of verdant tones implying undulating snakes

A mouthy poetics

A poetics of idols on an altar

A poetics of winnowing demented candidates

A poetics of quarters of sedatives

and halves

Another poetics of a different doorway

past which the clientele is filing

A poetics of oh no     what are these          symbols

or chickens hastily butchered

A celebrity poetics and a poetics

of plain old longing

A vulture poetics

First one then of all of these hunkered in a series of rooms

thus a poetics of variable thresholds again

An oxymoronic poetics

A discursive poetics

A flaccid poetics

A peachy poetics

And one of pronouncing it like “politics” and noting

any change this makes to the room

A placid objective poetics of everything

online        last        year

A poetics of uncles and a Johnny-come-latently or two

Ever and always      one of upgrades

A predatory poetics

The poetics of a monochrome palate

but within it

jostling shades

The poetics of the theremin

which like language you play

without touching