And Denner: I shouldn’t like to be a man—
to cough so loud, and stand straddling about …

Whatever interest
there was in
difference’s gone.

The sweetpeas, pale diapers
Of pink and powder blue, are flags
Of a water color republic.

Kowabunga! The amoeba was
                                                  mountainous.
Venusian burgers were sailing out

My wife’s recipe for a fairy:
Put buttercup pollen
And a canary feather

Conversation

words=canned reasoning

.

Grammar tells us

“Believing something will happen 
        Because I don’t want it to 
And that some other thing won’t 

Susannah Harrison, “Songs in the
Night; By a Young Woman, Under Heavy
Afflictions,” didn’t touch him, but Morrison
Heady traveled by stage from Louisville
to touch Laura Bridgman, who
demanded that Helen Keller wash her hands. Helen
would later touch many of us but wouldn’t let us
touch her back.

After the sponge bath
Spice cake and coffee
In a sky blue china cup

I like breathing better than work
but strange is the meat
when it is yanked out of the sky