Tremendum.
The thorax of a bird. Soft stroke of the chest. Head caplet. Pale rope air. Struggle over particles of sleep, impassable, smallish white hair grows the skull predisposed. Amalgam sleep, patch neural, small teeming slices. A public figure is history to the ear. By her ear, these pale hairs. A bird’s ear? Its head cocked & bulged eye, water & gas. Angelike. Suit jacket. Her overcoat full of cold startled air;
Emblem small wonder’s socket. Love of these flags. White Rose. To touch her ear, warm where she lies, breathing. A pump noise. The ground lately with its blue oil, rubbed earth. Strings of pointed flags flapped downward, triangles of these flags. Slice magazine a downward layer. Heat release. One hole pale lit beneath track of. One hoist. Garagiste. Jacket pulled up at the neck, orderly hospice, releases old upholstery, dragnet, a smell of car air
Where well-dressed means “against the cold”, the bate of the breath silent, a snow light shorn. To stand stare intent at the tipped bare branches, white ache of snow & no other colour, impedance of cold entering the jacket. Her hair on the pillow countable white bent up a bit. Lean whisper or gaze. Skin pale imprinted with. Listen to her, O ache of these tiny willow buds layer on layer. Anastazja. A stony immigration, worn smooth
Hot wind ribbed into the curled chest warm stuck with old cloth. Ribs of cloth twist strips. Dry. Open at the wrists a quietude, bliss white keys. Cold touch of the white keys on the child’s hand. Front of the Mendelssohn so cherry oaken. White hair a sheet endeavours. Stroke this hair, top of. Warm inner paw of light. Facsimilitic breathing. Toreadore. Shadow of the girl. Her. Young leap abstinent. The overcoat with steel air, flooded open
O the wide Missouri now
O across that light, small cocked bird its light head & dwelling
breakup shorn spring
We fell into the river
She remembers
Personable, they say, child climbing out of the
Her child’s leg well-dressed
jammed in the ice floe
She looks to me with pale blue translucence. Ice
her sister pulls
Leg of old corduroy sodden & icy
against an unwitted darkness
her dream a
a soft snow
