diamond stylus of fantastic night stereo (1987)

Dark crippled night draws the shades sealing long haze
Envelopes of rust and navy, feeds potted
Geraniums with postcard whispers of breeze bulk rate
Thirdclass it bounces around the world without
Direction ready by a million snoopy clerks
Cautious night unsheathes the porcupine quills
Brushed by rushing trucks and arabesque shoplights it
Dips into the inky murk of a million
Lonelinesses, sighing lovesick sailor, wraps our\
Leftovers with nocturnal foil
Goofy prankster night carves earth’s shapes into
Shadowed heaps and fills our plates
With wine glasses, her apron is
Never peeled off and runs with the bug juice of a million
porch lights, squeezed hearts, spit out seeds in
Biodegradable coffins, starved pits, plastic dirt,
Formaldehyde prayer
Dusty tongued night yields a stick of charcoal
And sketches the latest ridiculous fashions
Frazzled hair tucked behind the ears,
Evening wear of spread-eagle clouds, hearty bibs
That wipe clean meal after meal,
Long deciduous robes without hint of starch,
Plaid stairs of mute moonlight statues and trellises one and
The same, rosewhisper patterns of wind
That hush the anxieties and fill in the cracks
With the sleep crust of a million eyes pulling living flowers
And doves from the tophat, drawing the diamond
Stylus of fantastic night stereo, painting
The blackness with forms loose,
Supernovas no less, sleepy atomic metronomes,
Tender moonlight wisps of collected scraps
That dogs of day wouldn't touch
Diamond stylus of fantastic night stereo