the Green Barrow (2017)

the green whalebarrow versus a forest ox,

out of the chute into a huge steel box------

now psychic therapy has shorn my locks;

now; future pours out a sauna detox



the barrow was full-brimming verdant,

designed deep in oceans luminescent-------

the box asked filling, the ox born reticent

from hedges of stars unpruned, sans quadrant



pits, crawls, pitfalls and spittle.

stumbles, freckles, scrapes negligible------

quarter minus, stringline, rakes indispensible

tendon, ligament, and aspirin. a little



clod by clump by shovel by ton

ten yards in a dumpster, i'm not done-----

thousands more pounds on the camel's son

prep path in gravel dust, how the west was won.







mt tabor 2017