The size of the human brain
increased from the apelike
capacity of 500 cubic centimeters

purple petunias, amaranths, flattened
daisies, mattresses with phosphorescent
bodies that shimmer in the dark—

The ass-muscles sag like a sling
but those glorious membranous wings
expand all the more extravagantly—

Riding in the wake
of your electric shock,
I was your therapy.

The sun has pulled
the dew from the grass,
leaving the roots warm, humid, soft.

He is no one I really know.
The sun-charred, gaunt young man
By the highway’s edge in Kansas
Thirty-odd years ago.

Guest night. Breath-taking games and—spending. 
I play hand-rubbing host, you guest condescending.

I am convinced of my true behavior —
How my impulse at certain times unfolds
like a hand limping over a rail road track;

As I sat on the toilet
of a Boeing 727,
somewhere over Ohio

WANOKA (AP) Chimney Rock, which stood for centuries on the Oklahoma plain as a towering guide for covered wagons crossing the treacherous Cimarron River, has fallen victim to the same forces which created it. “Moisture and wind, the tools that sculpted it, reduced the eerie formation to a heap of rubble,” said Ernie Crumpler, Oklahoma University geologist.