Friday, October 7, 2016

10.7


faint pink light in clouds above blackness of ridge

first golden-crowned sparrow calling on pine branch


present presence of whole past, all that is to come

other forms, whole number limited, point being that


Noh dancer in helmet and leather jacket over kimono

long tone choir presence in man’s peripheral vision


pale red orange of above shadowed shoulder of ridge

white line of wave breaking across mouth of channel


Thursday, October 6, 2016

10.6


light coming into blue whiteness of sky above ridge

golden-crowned sparrow calling on black pine branch


something made as subject “color,” keeping pictures

in “light,” gives over to sense of, breaking out of


Arnold Palmer breaking in 3 years before Vin Scully

1000s of televisions bought so people could see him


blinding white circle of sun over shoulder of ridge

white line of wave breaking across mouth of channel


Wednesday, October 5, 2016

10.5


light in window opposite unmade yellow and blue bed

golden-crowned sparrow calling on black pine branch


paintings arrange in room devoted to, shown outside

stayed by façade of, such at first sight, appear in


son’s portrait of father next to concert hall doors

looking “so that you will never see the back of me”


reddish orange sky above shadowed shoulder of ridge

line of pelicans flapping to the right toward point


Tuesday, October 4, 2016

10.4


grey whiteness of clouds above still shadowed ridge

sound of jet passing over pine branch in foreground


arbitrary equation, place following point continuum

moving observer, that too depart from it, find that


man paddling out at 4 A.M. on 447th consecutive day

before reading c o n t i n u u m in concrete bunker


reddish grey light in cloud above shoulder of ridge

line of egrets standing on sand across from channel


Monday, October 3, 2016

10.3



red orange light in clouds above blackness of ridge

golden-crowned sparrow calling on black pine branch


understood as absence of, since the decline of that

sense of scale and color, transparency, or would be


woman in black standing by concrete wall of bunker,

man at table on left reading “this is what happens”


yellow orange line of cloud above shoulder of ridge

shadowed white line of wave breaking across channel


Sunday, October 2, 2016

10.2


dream in unmade yellow and blue bed opposite window

red orange of horizontal cloud above shadowed ridge


run into anything becomes anything, amounts to that

meant by “form,” means of expression, “point” which


never underestimate a man who overestimates himself

anyone running against someone who’s substance free


yellow orange line of light above shoulder of ridge

diagonal white line of wave breaking across channel


10.1



man waking from dream in unmade yellow and blue bed

Orion in blackness of night sky above pine branches


other, as he explained it satisfied black and white

among most, anything that might oppose them, are in


Trump recalling “smart smart smart people who don’t

have a great education, “don’t want anything crazy”


grey blackness of sky above black shoulder of ridge

red orange line of lights on horizon across from it