I telescope you out to the farsighted wrong
end of the instrument

Seven cliffs of alabaster
Sisters overlook
England’s finest downs.

After I make my home dark
I wander through the few
quiet rooms and let
the bright blinking eyes
of the continuing electricity

Hawk free of jess,
the diver springs
toward fire no son can bear,

Like a seal 
in broken sleep, 
aware of how

In hill fire Fall
come home from sea,
I climb the shoal

I’m drunk. My head holds up 
the soft vibrations of the room. 
Dusk. My daughter jogs her answer 

The Eternal
is like the ax
the assassin slams

A Chinese emperor, in order to preserve
his power, decided that he would never
grant clemency to anyone. His reign

The disturbed man chopped up the body
of the older woman for days and threw it
into garbage cans at various locations