Rusty Morrison
please advise stop
the chainlink fence holds separate the severed air stop
a blond boy sits on a bench his hair dissolving into wind please
etch kohl around each shadow to give it room rather than brightness stop
look up into a starless patch of night and watch it expand stop
stand in its corridor as if in motion stop
as if all four directions had let go of their point of interlocked origin please
indices that at once augment and ridicule the senses stop
a stone floor to step into waist deep stop
too easily I might erect in lieu of sight a stage of sculpted shrines please advise
please advise stop
like water-spiders on a pond the hours pass overhead stop
with each perfected dexterity I thin the surface that carries me stop
traces of an otherwise indiscernible consensus collect under my fingernails please
his face isn’t lost to me but traveling now and mostly untended stop
hereafter will I apply rules and avoid content stop
braid wildflower stems peeled of petals stop
scrub gently with a brush to relieve us of the historical present please
listen for the entire circumference of the screen door’s arc but hear only its slap stop
even incoherent babbling is usually phonetically accurate please advise
please advise stop
just lean against the wallpaper its flower-pattern flares stop
tied up my dry bundle of consciousness with fresh twine stop
how to wait out the empty frame gold-leafed and needing polish stop
scrubbed away the furniture until I was left with only the housekeeping stop
the frown thinning my lips went unnoticed by the rest of my face please
close to form today but didn’t penetrate more than formula stop
knock do not rub the earth from freshly collected potatoes please
midday sun through the window-slats and fitted to the wall like a handrail stop
even numbness has downy tufts and pods that split to release seeds please advise