Wednesday, December 19, 2007

steve dalachinsky & jim leftwich

still await


utopian wholly revised
daunting identities
seen as clusters of rare jewels
& imagined meals
here there is no respite from
heart mystery midtown
sweaty ovations of
century and irony
gutted honorably & passed
out
crumbs scents urine &
a kind of absence
split mystical nausea
& a kind of malice
traced deliciously wicked
in the desert
malaise in the social asylum
known as bagel
scorned morning fakeness
incomplete wo(r)lds
diagnosis haunts
robust
deny
secret wheels
civil
measure
order muted
civility
step by step
still await
to wrestle
the tired
throat


leftwich and dalachinsky 12/07