nightsong

rucksack of ructions
of dovecoated dragonflies
was culled from cat's-eye emeralds
as swordfish skeletons
known to fandango with ostriches
to make their creek run lickety-split amok
swam to saloon and salvo beneath a sickle
and when all is said and done
the parched syringe of a skyscraper
will syphon slag from a skullcap chapel
the skirmish of burbling boleros
on the starship hive
where caterwauling wombats
quivering like stalagmites warped into triggers
will be crammed into manilla escapades
and mailed to the freckle repellent
of a mangrove whose codpiece no longer blazes



photo from Man Ray's film Le Retour à la Raison , 1923