If you've got a better idea
I'd like to steal it
make it my own intone
transitive
                  bandshell white
patina to crack the looks
at her zesting a pillow
of sand with purple sage
on the cracker thorns
pouted nibble springer
the range of celery and corn
flakes that will not burn
and out from the crisper
comes the freezer and ice
soldiers melting sexily
at me in a mascara smear
hula hoop holocaust
and other make-light-ofs
like the lake paintings
oxidizing amidst salt bath
drawings on the blade
of a dervish crawling
dyeing head scarves in ink
the blotter doesn't try
to stop the congress
or dam the river
or dub over