It has a bronze covering inlaid with silver,
originally gilt;
the sides are decorated with openwork zoomorphic

not to steer but to steady
the boat when I steer into un-

when I steer into strange

Suddenly, you were planting some yellow petunias
outside in the garden,
and suddenly I was in the study

hello is my laundry ready

time is an enemy 
thick air 
a pigeon writes 

The big yellow house 
up the hill   a blue-green house 
across   a gray house 

they talk about / how Jane talked about / giving 8 puppies away

In the late afternoon, above the town of Llanes, on the rock wall of the promenade, old men sit facing the ocean and read soft core pornography.

Sometimes nuns too visit this promenade and walk along it from one end to the other. 

Out after dark in what was left of the Combat Zone
we ate raw sushi next to Big Mo's Live Sex,

Remember where I came from.
Think of a continent of sabled czars.
Leave your home. Let exile fill your mouth