Gears

Rosemary would eat off all our desks

doing what she's doing

               the casket left

in the living room.

    Use it as a coffee table when the neighbors come over

    Eat a birthday cake on it

    Take a picture of the green and gold pillow with cursive salvation on it

    Put a cat on it

Your brother's mother warms a lean, her face high

above the white plates, an approved

confusion wriggled in dim light.

Japanese cooks at a bakery

washing dishes.

"You need to know but you don't"

     falling in love is just another       way of making

a fool

of yourself

Don't touch me on the chest while your wife is upstairs

The confidence of sound

in a room filled with space

Danger in the corners

relaxes a time bomb escaper

lying in a splintered crater of rosewood floors, a tree invertebrate

soaking into his family

                      memories

and when the dog was never found; it smelled of oxidized iron before it was

what it was             to be.

Derelict advantages play fast jazz towards a pool

of sports car buyers, their

company is ALL AT ONCE.

When craning remittance shuffles

with a dance partner called

However You Want It, the moon cages itself in

a jealous harboring made of Entice. 

He snacks on gas

station beef jerky, a cosmic spin

put on the whole thing. 

Man, laughing, he's totally laughing at

the whole thing.

"Hey, if you escape, shoot me in the brain, okay?

...I've gotta be somewhere soon."

            Lasting here any longer,

            Punches through white paper,

and      Integration sleeps with some slothy lady

down   the street, she's actually right next door.

Brass melody, waiting family,

voices crowded with errant noise

     can't reach the handle

          can't reach the handle to

When gears rotate smoothly

When weather opens mouths

When bodies warm bodies