10.26.2005

Juliana Spahr said that nature poems are immoral.

b/c they don't know they are hawaiian they are
sewn the girls run thru them and put their hands on butterflies

so they are roans and they murmur and talcum their legs
have pantpockets and bob and they are objects inside

the throat like leaf & whittle paralellagram septer
they say o and wee they are saying that

earth sidles and suspends they run thru the ballroom
and the hatroom a bassist plays in they run going oh oh nature

they are arachnids and wallabees, benchmarks, porpoises
pundits, flophouses, railways, wisteria

and needless to say and needless to say

they are jewels that are fine, like new, they will ship
and soft and spring catterpillars they eat things good

for they are taken over and others and touching they are blown
toward the foreign summer which is over and all and extinguish

© Dawn Pendergast