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Querulous weather—rain on the ocean flattening sky—

indicators shifting breeze to breeze,

nerving blue beyond the pool—

voluptuary bubbles at one end, stillness at the other.

Menace in a kind of white

obligates nothinging.

Proposition: lines run—shore, dune, storm fence, grass, sidewalk, street, veins.

Zones of keeping or tending—

unfold, unfurl, unwind, unmove, unblur.

Ribboning sound from a child or gull.

Choice-broken hearts everywhere anyone older than a child.

Harvesting rest, breathing in salt.

Xeric heart unfilled, but sufficed.

Yenning dries the ground.

Kilter, off-kilter, on-kilter—presence of absence of welcome.

Fidgeting in the throat instead of speech

anatomizes emotion the way a raccoon washes its hands.

Walk away. Walk toward. Walk over. Walk.

Blithe as dying.

Joss for living.

Syncopy in the sky again—breeze intent, though.

Grind down into sand this heart. Push iron rod in and wait for lightning, for storm-made glass.

Love you can dig out with your hands.

Elision of sympathy and lightning—hard as pyrex hearts—

damage that pays the tithe—

torqued branches, wild transparencies.