Three Works |
by Dean Brink |
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As you become your friends your furniture must become you, stand for the real you, and something on each shelf and wall so the friends feel friendliness. Dancers Winding Down They just want balanced diets my friend’s wife points out adding: if I don’t get cable how can I level the playing ground? I’m tired of always keeping up so that the horizon doesn’t get to me. That’s what the new burgers are all about for instance. Says he can’t even smell microbes anymore though others say they find their way into ducts and canals he leaves the stray door ajar and hopes a breeze ‘ll kick in uncontrollably flushed, Brownian motion or at least whiffs of osmosis on their way. One of the two will be the planet’s undoing. If we talk it through, what more to discover in the visible world after the third grade or so, but get a load of those quanta rest notes filling in where others left off in a huffy— Bach’s fugues so marvelously Marx Brothers, basements of footnotes and clunky dice reduced to the usual runways thanks to Pythagorean theorems and an aviary of recorders. The radius of loses still subtracted from the gravity of wombs, and the magic that plumps an ark threatens the land with colonies of flowers busy undergirding planks tendered firmly in our way. E Pluribus Bananas Choosing the right pieces to surround oneself is an ongoing burden. As you become your friends your furniture must become you, stand for the real you, and something on each shelf and wall so the friends feel friendliness. Then striking poses comes naturally too, people love you for the real you and all the clippings and bookmarks to back it up. These days fashion is brushed metal bending over us from the steel toes of laboring hours on up to the finest platinum barrettes on daughters, the clean future foretold in sci-fi misses us, the very moral impulse to tweak the onrush lost in a dampening of fun, as focused hording, while our main product - simple, disembodied gore – is censored courtesy of servants embedded in a Westward caravan ticking off each peak of bison leveled to pass further from memories off camera, tossed into the much-feared salads of history, kooky beyond all bearings of automated feelers our men sent out last week, let's count sales and consumer confidence after the initial one was rolled out, spells roping it back. It’s anyone’s guess who quoted what; what said not important as we - so far - always duck in in time, jets angling favorite songs from hi-tech heated toilet seats so that steering down here finds a modicum of comfort in all the effort. Twilight of Good Graces Across the bay, helpless neighbors snarl the commute and moodiness lowers the general bar to shoulder-padded mumbles— who rules, who shows who. Air superiority is the talk of the town. Waiting for them we head off to see herring feed themselves to seals— riveting kersplashes in a hierarchy unseen since since ape stood up in the evolution to man, only a bony tail there, a patch of fur here, vegetarians and hawks—the idea of balance indelible in the circus. Wells dropped to hit-and-miss after the heat, then summer showers kicked in minimally. The only real hope lie in alien saucers forming a holding pattern over Mt. Rainier, smoke-signaling rain— even my green Oma from the lovely Schwarzwald knew days blue enough to send us to the lake in the foothills and sit in the sun until a freckle spread and we felt like a Nutty Buddy after the hard work of splashing around half naked. The onslaught of cumulonimbus hardly crossed our minds, was something cyclical, shapes in the sky barometric. |
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