bloom again in gray matter-o-fact afternoon
sub-urban grommets parallel aerial
planning circuits. poised cable-ready on the
grid, home window-shopping network
of voyeurs listen for the assessor footsteps given
up for gleams of "for ever and for e-
ver" porchlight property ascension
What abides who? rhododendrons thick enough
for a six ounce kid to walk on bloodthinner
enough sap for twice that much in
medicaid pancakes. waxing eliotic to the
exclusion of pineappular buds, -- mud-timorous
fuddy-duddy in the demotic, wet-blanket -- that's not
it. lap the grub salmagundi that unsettled roots
how to be sloppy, various, and full of holes w/out getting
soaked. how to make your slip-n-slide liability free