Engine:@Under its glass lid, the square
of cheese is like any other elementof the imagination—cough in the tugboat,
muff summering somewhere in mothballs.Have a humbug. The world is slow
to dissolve & leave us. Is it yourhermeneut’s helmet not letting me
filter through? The submarine sinkswith a purpose: Scientist Inside
Engineering A Shell. & meanwhileI am not well. Don’t know how to go on
Oprah without ya. On t.v, a documentaryabout bees—yet another box in a box.
The present is in there somewhere.
of cheese is like any other elementof the imagination—cough in the tugboat,
muff summering somewhere in mothballs.Have a humbug. The world is slow
to dissolve & leave us. Is it yourhermeneut’s helmet not letting me
filter through? The submarine sinkswith a purpose: Scientist Inside
Engineering A Shell. & meanwhileI am not well. Don’t know how to go on
Oprah without ya. On t.v, a documentaryabout bees—yet another box in a box.
The present is in there somewhere.
- From Verse, Volume 18, Numbers 2 & 3 (2001).