grassfather

Ducks and geese in a pond racket honking
biblical readings mmourners.made wearyripples in waterfall lake
offtrees cattails and red-winged blackbirds andall the air in gassho.

Seven men in gun green uniforms and bright white gloves fired three shots.
flag was unfolded and refolded. Glovedhands checked and rechecked the folds, pressing armyand adjusting some loss. "On behalf of the President of theUnited States, the United States Army, and a grateful nation, this fl ag is presented as a token of app reciation for your loved one’s honorable a
nd a faithful service." 

Groundskeeper fiddles at marble font with electric screwdriver.
Statics and radio crackle from the voices at his belt, 
"Yeah, one of the pumps is out. I'll be down later." 

uncle bob

car clipped.
purple dragon speaks.
"wanna see what someone
from Auschwitz looked like?"
bullshit! from the French boul. shit.
deceit! treachery in our midst!
colors you don't get from a can.
scarred nose on a wood-stove.
blood clots so weird
cancer hurts when i eat.
i stop eating.

all this weirdness
all this isolation
and I still can't die alone?

keys on a piano

black and white in sequence

“way he plays

makes me hot”

blood pours from every wall and socket

clots form in the hanging blacknes

show and tell

       She

          They

    made a diagram

      of flawed pictures

 bell rings and we forgot

    fingers that cannot

         hold a callous

      grasp softly but

            never will forget

         diagrams of false

                pictures

    shown by

       she
they