simplicity rounded-off (1998)

folksongs & cobblestones
anointed, simplicity rounded-off

cars that work,
yet eat Future.

if only posture
could pay for all the starch.

homerun, deep
into congregation.

speech been raked
to tidy bonfire pillage,

homework, pure
TV coal. spawning,

genius death verve
dissipates, until

city skin subliminal
concrete dermis closes

tearducts of bull run rain,
10 inches in one day

over a polluted utopia



portland-swale creek, 1998