Trust

Trust your vaulted hallucinations
Trust your most ridiculous
impossibilities
Trust the wild visions that arise
from moments of boredom

Do not trust the larcenous glares
that surround you
Do not believe the gravity
in the black holes of pupils

Trust the improbabilities
and they will become realities

You Matter Like Prayers

You matter like prayers.
You give God to heaven
that I may ask them for you.

Big Ten Schools

Those are classroom ideas. The dormroom ideas, the flip-flops
grimy in the shower, the barf-proof tiles, the linoleum mattress.
This is where the webisodes are coming from. This is where
the webisodes are going to. These are the things we know:
A great pyramid of beer pong cups, the rosemary tragedy
of a Sunday morning at the clinic, daydream incapabilities
flatlining in rows of desks, the windows shawled in brick.
After all this we will never get back to the four makeshift bases
of the old electric field. We are 27 years old now
and have no idea what that is supposed to mean.

That Missing Civilization

Shakespeare making man
into music

Tu Fu locked in a tree
like Ariel
on the other side of the world

I can do nothing
but hold them
the blossoms
and instead they just
go on in the breeze

The big bombs rock us
to sleep as

Hamlet's body
is carried out
by soldiers

A New Kind of Laziness

I've happened upon
a new kind of laziness,
the laziness of delight.
The laziness of a daisy
knocked over by the sun.