March 2022

Yes I prefer the peripheral
because it limits the vision.

It does focus my attention.
Direct looking just is too

much killing of the moment.
Looking oblique littles

the moment into many
helpful moments.

Moment moment moment
moment keep in the moment.

so understated he could be
swedish or so sehr praktisch
even deutsch with his grey haus­-
schuhe in the door of a space
safe with church tax rent control
an automatic heating plan
and cheap light softened by
synthetic glass refracting
the abyss of memory
foam and cut-price bedding
bought online on the off chance
of drinks and kisses…

I should speak of the peacock—he
would want me to. It had a marvelous
traipsing tail like an Arabian
rug. From

where we spoke,
it was so dark we could
only think bright things

                                    It was dark
the way inside of the body
is dark, a dark
                                without an eye

At least, the white stone fact
of the walls we knew well,

the way they curved the…