Blue Hooded Snapper

while forming gills under the calamine tundra
the ferrous and zinc commando lands in Basra
cross-stitching coordinates that sew-up incidents
to thoughts, breeding water mains to tall orders,
skinny ties; up embankments and to power lines
on pole tops with cats that cuddle in the yowl
of Cheops resized--the Hoon of advertised treasuries
kept products from the palace of tea-- scratches
on records and unfed presidents lost--wet matches
laws of mercurial insights on neurotoxin anima
kicking and coughing with strychnine back-bends
punctuations from pressed dimensions, your wedding
and the pantomime bluster of a Chesapeake ghost
reading a brand new copy of Tender Buttons in the sun
pulling out of the Bay, dragging skeletons of floats
and roiling cold water through the diesel wheels
leaving never-seen whitewater abandoning the coast
and the love of nitrogen narcosis-- slow sinking sound