--- J O S H U A   M C K I N N E Y

The difference between
             
the
river road
 Its dark traveling
                                  
under the sheen of
 Hard thought, and say
               
a kid riding
 The sofa, shrieking
                               
"Mr Toad!  Mr. Toad!"
 Is accident
                                
the comparison      above which

Gulls have now begun
                           
to squawk or sing
 Clashes with the idea
                
that this is not
 A poem.  Pick one:
                              
a dead whale or a stove boat
 On the beach
                            
sudden flotsam
 Flings speech back at
                            
itself      by chance
 A knot
                                      
a thing