from
Circumstantial Evidence, Washington D.C.: S.O.S., 1985.

OBSOLETE AUTOMOTIVE

1.

skies and seals

can you give me the recipe?

instead of
instead of

don't confuse

thin mean

bright

better marbles

triumphantly grazing

always never

rare good

clearly

1941-1946

2.
Achilles will never overtake the tortoise
this is not Thoreau country
it's the pseudonymous "me"
the world of grammar
Dorothy Dumhardt
Chief Mo McGee
Reno and his girl Peach
slice of grey sky
Bronx cheer
silence love time and language
in reverse order

3.
park
next to autosales
park
Seville   Le Mans   Monte Carlo   Granada
by these clues you are known
to have entered the room

I am a raving epistemologist
I am a raging metaphysician
I am a ravaged ontologist
I am a ravished aesthetician

4.
lacunae   epilogues   appendices   addenda

5.
what / where is the cast of characters?
yes / no the plot?
language   time   love   silence
Rabbit   Fox
skiing on bones
on arctic air
windshield wipers stuck
all so sudden

Nature is sodden

gloating