she said

i am sprinkled with boys and boys and babys and babys
sleep is a welcome jackrabbit -- grave -- poems -- slate
roofs -- i know where they're from -- i have canoed past
sloughs of impossible sediment -- oh wow life's sentiment
collecting at the bottom -- an accident of semantics -- an
accident of blind fury -- an accident of bodies -- an accent
on the bones of the day -- this morning is wash -- everything

(s)

heretofore unnoticed are bellies upturned looking at each
other like what? this is the clock ticking and i'm trying not
to waste your time here, really Margaret, i believe in your
faith, i believe in your dripping head, i believe in the cart
that you lead about you, i believe in your pennies, i believe
in your stocks, i believe in the bible       you worry so often
about obeying      i worry so often  sometimes  too  we are
just wandering kiosks, anyway, like purely imagined bones
in a hillside so long ago, we can't even keep track of where
we put our heart, and where we hid the bottles of lotion
whose commands we slathered on our skin, nave romance
& all.

i believe in the bible      you worry  so often
about obeying
                         , she said