From “now”
at the borders of systems always something a bit extra
like beyond the slash of begonia an ancillary, almost
bitter, pink—there linger there drugged out
on phenotypical essences, craven & horny & hardwired
for whatever’s on the brink splintering
oranges erupting in odorous flame—linger
by the exquisite corpse of this delay
dragged out & fatally nervous
& in the head derision roses
you minister the margins
of apoplectic reed, murmurs in the hearts of palms
a speed of thought hitherto unrealized
a speed of access to what’s now
where the margin of error is is
Source: Poetry (March 2022)