Do relent so do borrow for, ever infringe you
whether allow close up in redempt so. For do
to give over why for cue rested, for done along

To the or so then for all for on, both for
these an or then, down as before in fond and

Straw promise to vowel, up then why or be
forward on bind,

Never or, will to it, or nerve throw past most
over soon after, and grasp again offensive

Our life stories are scary and droll,
Like masks children wear on Halloween
As they go from door to door

Straw promise to vowel, up then why or be
forward on bind,
advent kind rested fare so

I write my little song. And you call it
Guitar noodle. You write without you here.
And I call it the poem with you here in it.

Fulton near Pearl, dug up to lay new Fulton Center 
subway power lines, a stone wall, three feet high, 
in silt-muck seven feet below street level, inside it 

Sweet runs the water ever
out of spring and meadow,
frothing low, rising,

In a field of broken antlers, 
I’m holy
as the grass