FIVE POEMS

need your right knee is a haunted staircase.your left is a spring breaking island. your knee is a movingsnowplow. your kneecap is a mona lisa fridge magnet. your knee linkageunlike a shrimp tail. your leg skin is an ice-raychinese lattice design. recursive shape grammar. your leftkneecap is the black leather star wars helmeted special editionmr. potatohead. the antihero. reflex hammer it and the knee’s ear falls offto no response. there— shine elephants get drunk from marulaplums that drop and thenrot. sherry is considered mother’sruin, made to send emptybarrels to scotland. plague doctorsin the black death use their beaksfor juniper berries in gin now. deerare intoxicated by fermented apples.like frost, golden resin, dew, I knowwhat it’s like to have fallen,to spoil on eden, overnight. grater I’m just tryingon love songslike rubber scuba suits.grateful as greenwasabi root on shark skin. you are my moonjellyfish. gelatinousand…