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In Every Direction

© Ralph Angel

As if you actually died in that dream
and woke up dead. Shadows of untangling vines
tumble toward the ceiling. A delicate
lizard sits on your shoulder, its eyes
blinking in every direction.

Even Because

© Ralph Angel

not dead but deeper, wrapped up in curtains, a different color,
among the railings and the pigeons, the rooftops and
walls

Breaking and Entering

© Ralph Angel

Many setups. At least as many falls.
Winter is paralyzing the country, but not here.
Here, the boys are impersonating songs of indigenous
wildlife. Mockingbird on the roof of the Gun Shop,

the Noster was a ship of swank... (8)

© Edward Estlin Cummings

the Noster was a ship of swank
(as gallant as they come)
until she hit a mine and sank
just off the coast of Sum

Where's Madge then,

© Edward Estlin Cummings

Where's Madge then,
Madge and her men?
buried with
Alice in her hair,
(but if you ask the rain
he'll not tell where.)

ordinary wind is winding(cold face blush

© Edward Estlin Cummings

ordinary wind is winding(cold face blush
wind is winding here there tomorrow)(
graceful dove wind
theatrical scar wind
thunderclapclapclap(clapclapstrike)
struckwinding wind

now what were motionless move(exists no... (89)

© Edward Estlin Cummings

miracle mightier than this:to feel)
poor worlds must merely do,which then are done;
and whose last doing shall not quite undo
such first amazement as a leaf-here's one

kumrads die because they're told)

© Edward Estlin Cummings

kumrads die because they're told)
kumrads die before they're old
(kumrads aren't afraid to die
kumrads don't
and kumrads won't
believe in life)and death knows whie

who sharpens every dull... (26)

who sharpens every dull
here comes the only man
reminding with his bell
to disappear a sun

mr youse needn't be so spry... (XVIII)

mr youse needn't be so spry
concernin questions artyeach has his tastes but as for i
i likes a certain partygimme the he-man's solid bliss
for youse ideas i'll match yousea pretty girl who naked is

proud of his scientific attitude... (13)

proud of his scientific attitudeand liked the prince of wales wife wants to die
but the doctors won't let her comman considers frood
whom he pronounces young mistaken and
cradles in rubbery one somewhat hand

up into the silence the green... (41)

up into the silence the green
silence with a white earth in ityou will(kiss me)goout into the morning the young
morning with a warm world in it(kiss me)you will goon into the sunlight the fine
sunlight with a firm day in ityou will go(kiss medown into your memory and