Taxonomy
It is the
animal entire
though taken apart
it might not
seem so. An-
alysis is a
handy tool
but draws
the breath
from. Leaving
shavings in
the long grass,
bleached bones,
the meat dis-
carded since
it otherwise
hides the frame.
The Ladies of the Afternoon
It is a different time
of day; & so the term —
though similar — de-
scribes a totally different
coterie. The ladies of
the afternoon, all
members of the same
choir, sit in their long
dresses in the drawing-
room listening to
one of their number
play Pathétique on
the new piano. A deli-
cate applause follows.
Later
The root here is "dote;"
which, based on an older
version of Adobe's now-
defunct Flash Player, means
"to show affection." That's
an empirical overview —
further analysis, whose
political purpose is
to imagine the kind of
interruption & disturbance
Taylor Swift & James Taylor
singing, say, Falling in Love
with Love on a prime-
time variety TV show
might do to the economy,
reveals a series of
corrections. How we
look now is not how
we have always traveled.
Galapagos
Thunder somewhere. Again
the moths. Light bends in a
severe curve to show me
where I've been, not where
I'm going. Star Trek re-runs
taping upstairs, L. in Mel-
bourne, the cat having to be
shown the meat in her bowl
before she starts eating it once
more. Like me she's growing
old, too foolish to come in out
of the heat, out of a humidity so
thick my cigarette smoke needs
claws to fight its way through.