For instance, this lushly verdant plain. Imagine it dialed back to featurelessness, each spiraling stalk retracted, each filigree rosette slow-blinking shut.

                  crown of infrared
                  song of drifting dune
The smooth-boled trees of his interior

1.

hyperarticulated giant black ants endlessly boiling out of a heaped-up hole
in the sand

how can I
ask you to
absolve me

couldn’t stop / himself picking 
his red / lest it
pinken lest / it pale 

was it that / that glance / backward

downward / so evidently / an afterthought   

the body / enacting / its relentless

look silly, look shot, look
O so American cheesecake!

The husband wants to be taken back
into the family after behaving terribly,

The world is your lawyer.
Pawn-shop pearls.
Hair like telegraph wire.

There are days I can understand
why you would want to board
broad back of some ship