January 2012

In love, his grammar grew
rich with intensifiers, and adverbs fell
madly from the sky like pheasants
for the peasantry, and he, as sated
as they were, lolled under shade trees
until roused by moonlight
and the beautiful fraternal twins
and and but....

Exalted life
                         this

not because you know
slavish attention
                                     or sit

bathed in the...