1.
DESCANT
La musique savante manque
à notre désir.
her sum each mute blue scape
welcomes
isocracy weathers its id for
the nonce
eroded omens of the upraised
surface
adrift in the age's othering
2.
stat conk is no-win kin to
prove
the to be too avers or errs
as what once rove to grammar's
tap
root's dower divvied did endow
3.
eyes' ire augured in added
hours
a tantrum's trope avulsed
the trumped shill gloms a
reet demean
or semblance of nought in
vacuo
4.
loci hitched to hectic metal
chords course nerve-borne
the finite rush
to table time to ear to ink
out earth
its pastness a last vast dig
5.
backlit dust of unencumbered
stars
fractional annals of aeolian
laminate
subsided currents tumuli
moraine
and the unadulterated race
of children
6.
censured a nubile graph outwits
the veil of wickered axes
a disputation of thralled
staves
tessera's looted troth
7.
white clay fretted to blue
changes
faith too flawed to hold love
in it
at plinth of noon an agon's
ambit
antiquity's ageless weather
8.
cold steel tokes the god of
rust
mud bone and jade the unchained
glacier
depth incumbent on actual
years
some greet others count
or hide in
9.
the word stem spirals clockwise
from
its rubric a constancy of
tombed roots
whence the entropic crystal
of art
whose cleavage is its requiem
10.
minims limn the simplest intangibles
the pure word glosses the
fulgent blade
posthumous memoirs the isms
be damned
that sparkle in your eyes
is gone
11.
breath equivocates where once
it praised
ancestors grown remote as
lore
grammarians leashed to lamp
the score
by periplum tongue to boot
12.
rules of thumb reap moot stumps
wrath's ordnance mimes its
flaws
so that the ruined sanctuary
gains
the labor of a thousand gods
13.
the ogive offset occults odd
lots
hindsight's slash and burn
at terminal velocity the twig
of fate
whose lauds a wry child learns
14.
complicit night gone wild
for wastage
venture foliage adorns the
lily
mated and abated the physics
of denial
in a weave of works and wonder
15.
bared to the windrow's chronic
rune
whose tune exaction dared
oppose
not word one in its singular
violence
says granite conquers the
compassed rose
16.
standing waves redact the
light
less world than loci an ardor
compounds
to each its shade or living
shard
the incremental alms of disregard
17.
conjuration's bride derides
what ill wind ciphers as licensed
heaven
elided illogic of narcissus
paired
alien gaze and pulse
18.
anatomies crave their demon
phases
all zones yoked to rote thighs
not that it lasts uncommon
child
unasking and unaxed
19.
scattered sightings on the
littoral
migratory qualms unlettered
bacchanal
that nary a debriefed devil
dare defile
this diaspora of sun-seared
nerves
20.
canticles court the troposphere
subtending mass to mutant
fear
whose graphic bits abrade
the font
of rime's consoling matrix
21.
epic intervals filter quicks
in situ fill a flogged fool's
air
breasting fire to clear what
cause
unsanctioned hungers there
22.
vexed by affinity second sight
concedes the law divines
the circle
deems the eristic hiss of
logs
a discourse sans parole
23.
twilight's garden enjoined
is ever
apt to resurrect the literal
void
homing through the bluest
hour
its ancient template to embrace
24.
the many cleave to the what
of one
quiet for an ocean still
for an air
this conjugal blossom these
sceptered radii
whose meridian senses gloried
in