That [2014]

kinked     at last

onto a coat-hanger trigger

ounces of consequence

spilling from chigger wounds

and bird-watching     eloquence

pulls that shock known as "hair"

[what did I know about

blood     about critter dancing

what lagomorph might I please

with so little a line

and am I the same thing

prodded while scrumming and]

tossed wet     into the neighboring courtyard

gushing knowledge of pigs     of rabbits

me     crouching on tangled throats

or our children     (compression?)

. . .

and the wigless

those drinking the shock

brandishing weighty manifestoes --

THEY surrender to an absence

while others find their toes     the tips

in languages and vices

          and that's that     sprawled out on a rug

          paw on That's trigger