Lights! Camera! Reality!
decorous doorknobs
birthday surrealism
pineapples but
unresolved tool sheds
blond wood curls
purple Galaxie 500’s barnacled with rust
stonework with green filling
kids already pushing
every edge –
the thirst for infinite regress
in the blue of fading address
weeds grow from rock walls like
family trees
up from a gravestone
all the milky secrets
out in the open
spurious sawgrass groans
at the spring chassis
teeth machines
that grin with green filth
in their mouths
the pulp of a million
dandelions scattered
as salts beside the drains
forget-me-nots neglected
day lilies hung out on the nod
while dogs smile at crotches
vines like cartoon octopi
hang like petticoats
a thistle glistening
roller-coaster ride
long grass like feather quill
pens clasped in their cases
gone to seed
but quivering with ideas
cheek-colored clover
centers the bees
as they whizz through the vortex
missing bullseyes
the squirrels are finally caught red-handed
they protest in stillness for a moment
but then they fly
they know
they’ve stolen everything
