James Bond’s girl friend
Lay in bed, having
A bad dream during a thunderstorm

Dear Kenward,
                              What a pearl
of a letter knife. It’s just

You
and
me

In the branches the light

                   so that the limbs

                            go out

1. denigrate obtuse and active verbs pronouns
skewer the sieve of the optical sewer
release the handle that holds all the gates up

the road on the wall

pulled shut

the sun from your eye

I dreamed of a clipper ship
Gold on blue THE CHASEY ALICE
Until he’d seen which Captain You said

     His mother caught him sitting on the toilet with his pants
down. On the edge of the bathtub, directly in front of him
was a photograph of a naked girl with her pubic hair showing.

OK Neal
    aethereal Spirit
             bright as moving air

The subway when
no one’s there, and then
the train is screaming.