Barely Jesuit Enough
By Maurice Burford
---- For You
had a crumbling taste in the filter
mice building a shuttle
from the desert
nicely pink whale mails it in
water built of language
a haunting voice
they go out in the cold
easy sleep comes bearing west
snowy piss landing
mortar chips
a kind of machine
animals can kiss anywhere
planning to go clear
locked in raincoats
& baritone
we smuggle glum in our shoes
never breaking the shorts rule
opal clue voting for fire
I hope to be clear of this
opening cane & a pump
our lake billows
kid ghost all in our hair
nesting in bottom rocks
& seven octaves higher
carry her to Ohio
roast her blood
and tell Glenn Tipton
not this time