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| Someplace Better Than This Place Here, though a desperate, traitorous figural hatchet with little lost breaths for the epigram sleeps in a heading of blossoms the foxiest stylus dreams it’s a bludgeon or pond. on that surface the boats I lost honey. I thought of bureaucracy’s spray & a beckoning faintness transposed over buildings enclosing the pamphlet’s invective. would I write the sea for a long transposition of depth, incommensurate blue or more spots I’m always as drunk yet beside them A surfeit, contempt holds the present together absentia like that & as cherry, those light meeting air in an empire’s dormer. In my ear the timbres of razing estrangement admonish delay like a love-bird. I can’t say the light that would break down a system is real in the sense that I see & with what on a tiny blight’s stoop can I reach that spacious & bracingly gone. To My Neighbors You dispense with the feathers of greeting, without which, the lights in the palace stay on. I don't know which trusts give flower to this composition of hymns, or which brass bands to ask for lessons in collectivity I know these traditions were murdered, & I was deposed by restorative objects who left me for sleek exposition. Compelled by a now rabid state to parrot perennial sea-ice & dogma averse to fleet claims, to the flight-path of cloud where the instance of every resemblance assures a return to those models of power. I have seen little else, & lessons so small when I have, & that pretty when extant, deceive. But how make a wreath that resisting all likeness would open, beloved, on each door why build us a house under rainbows, when that would collapse with the daily alarms. the avenue's not like a song or a travesty, it belongs only to mobilized quiet, it flowers against them with mildness. Industrial
Light & Magic
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DANA WARD lives in Cincinnati & edits Cy
Press. He is the author of The
Imaginary Lives of My Neighbors (Duration E-Book 2003). Recent
poems have appeared or are forthcoming in A Very Small Tiger, Aufgabe,
Bird Dog, Pom2 & elsewhere.
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