Magnolia Triangle
for Yusef Lateef
Magnolia’s
larvae prefixes
loop through, follow
each leaf within a break
beat at pre-dawn’s come muscle
tongues the sphinx’s nose what e-
cho tumble branches through blissed
out heaven’s end gild, limit a wish with
ache? Levies of the mark rum succor. Nothing
asks for but a taste. So what. Go back? Not now,
nor ever so, what. Not now. Go back, ever you ever.
Fortunes for Forty
Act as if you don’t know the basil leaves in your beard won’t wash out, and others will follow suit.
The heart is heavy before the bending of knees.
There is healing in your immediate future.
Rest will come after work, and work stay after health. On three-day weekends, catch up.
Pick another fortune cookie in the form of THREE John Ashbery brownies.
Pictures of the sky reveal invisible nets thrown in both directions at once.
Unbelievable friends arrive to remind you of reasons for belief.
Forget it, in case they ask.
Your shame & monstrosity are others’ thrill rides. Snap out of it!
Another Phantom Antler
for Robert Grenier
All that WAS
you NOW know
is gone to
feed BACK, re-
mind, rewind
IS it now
BAD as it
was? Tape STUCK
A cruel LOOP
REVELS to un-
ravel its RIVAL
WIDTH w/ Numero
ZERO WHEEL
fill redundancy
SUN gets ON
the EYES &
IN the temple
FIRE rife in
SAPPHIRE
dawn’s WAN
protection
as though
THAT was
the ONLY
WAY of
the living
Moss Trill 