language elemental [2011]

  after Bill Orcutt

this articulation 
of travelled rings stricken
does not exhilarate 
scraped vocabulary 
or a quick inversion 
of siren chord gossip

            calloused fingers compel

an imagination

strung metal corridors
whistle spring dissonance

breathing language opens
into the slightest voice

and through the sepulchral sound hole

wind and dust
                      converse