Julia Kiernan

Assassins

peaks

and the city

 

                                       –wan mass

 

of Writing

Marked                            with

weeds.

 

 

                                                       Certainly squirrels live in the woods

 

 

 

     hung sleep quelled the rioters

                                                                                             marble

 

minor

                                                       rods of

   

                                                                                              air

 

some quiet bird                              nothing for

  

                                                                      pride

                                                                                                light boats perform

or a harbor                                                                                                                                a light

 

 

print

                                        to found

paper the land                                                                                                                           magic

                                                                                                                                           made of paper

processed other

   

                                        corners

 

rolled seclusion

spent

flung vineyards and

oyster beds and

electric

 

 

 

area wrinkles

seminaries

             area Wrinkles

 

              the bath                                   the bed

 

 

the formal ox

                                                                               the cart

 

 

 

 the          grown mountains                   peeled your

razor edged between from                     the map

 

 

      everything  by small gray Light

   and      warded drama machinery

and                      quietly                 the rinsing

 

 

Vulgar assassins the peaks the city And
wan writing marked with weeds
Certainly squirrels live in the woods
Hung sleep quelled the rioters  Minor
rods of air some quiet bird Nothing for
pride or a harbor
Light boats perform a light
Oyster beds electric seminaries area wrinkle the formal ox, the cart. To found
paper, the land, made of paper, processed other corners Magic spent in
seclusion melody on flung vineyards
Your between is grown mountains the razor–edged map of peeled drama Everything by
small light by grayed machinery
And quietly the rinsing from our poet Filthy
with the poem

 

On vineyards and oyster beds, the electric wrinkle of

seminaries and bed & breakfasts stuck

like carcasses in the shoreline, your razor edged

mountains fell.

 

Grayed machinery. Light boats performed a light print.

The map peeled everything away by

guarded light, rinsing vulgarities in the

Sound.

 

Rinsing our poet, filthy with the poem. Here,

talk the fable:

 

Emerged a tower into past, into tapering artifice of sky.

The feeling of yourself became useless, as void charged like a beacon. Your

creative middle an instance of air, the logical climate went tender. A mountain

poured out all the wind.

A petal broke

A rainbow.