Procedures

a large number

of loose, carved spines

out of pleasure?

Boredom?

                *

To start over

in the carved moment

is to take cover.

                *

A solid short woman

in a pink wool suit

proceeds—

anxiously? doggedly?

alone

up a sidewalk

laid down for her.

(We don’t believe it.)

                *

There are two kinds

of choices,

pirate sources say:

unconscious

and desperate.