*

Zero built a nest
In my navel. Incurable
Longing. Blood too–

From violent actions
It’s a nest belonging to one
But zero uses it
And its pleasure is its own.

          (from The Quietist)

*

The limits have wintered me
as if white trees were there to be written on.

It must be purgatory
there are so many letters and things.

Faith, hope and charity rise in the night
like the stations of an accountant.

And I remember my office, sufficiency.

          (from O’Clock)

*

The stains of blackberries near Marx’s grave
do to color what eyes do to everything.
Help me survive my own presence, open to the elements.

Fog mist palloring greens, no demarcations,
but communitarian gravestones.

Celts lost to Anglo Saxons who endlessly defended marks.
Guerrilla war, terror:
the tactics for landless neo-realists.

          (from O’Clock)