GENOVA SUPERBA

Med head—lozenges & drops—keep it talking

what’s that pressure in the legs

descending from ears

“the sea’s incoherences”

she says, but it was she

and not the sea

in the shell-skull

making waves

we weren’t hearing. Si si, ok,

time’s a waste, time’s

a-wasting, and it’s a matter of taste,

professor bluefish

why buy three when you can

get six, and watch them slit open

with the heads on

but mine

is full of zones

and omens, I don’t think

you walk so fast

or it’s more urban,

inventing banking

was inspiration

for the pesto,

correct?

Or an anchovy

looks me in the eye

saying stroke my spine

ticklish fish

bright funicular

swims out/in

I mind