BARCODE YOUR HONOUR

                    

           When they're not like you, the wind for felt reason
           shouldn't riffle your hair let down; you can bury your
           head in an old Course book and parse their tongues. 
 

           In one Section they're viewed as children of the Earth, or
           
the Rainbow  ̶  something like that; frightful en masse.
           N
est high you have the right to remain uncommon.

           Elsewhere they conform to Articles of the Penal
          
Code over which you poured, shuddering off wolf
          
notices cross unfenced library tables. You can't go
           utterly that way wrong : skin tight! just power
                                                    down the hood, call
           up cruise beaks sky larking; sun block face bare
           behind
 ̶  the devil stark, guest room dark . but be

           advised : not all for sessions rise. If not one some
           thing gets you in the end; slips past touch points
           plunge fear lips guard as basins steam . consume. 
                
           Time! gather your lines, graceful as silk sheet
           
 covers of honour pulled up over nipples quick as
            
   it's done; lay ways you've spurned.
                       
                      And walk ~ Copy 10 . DM :
              no pigeon hackle brushes out in the street. Long
          
halo serving dogs! list scratch . bear down in heat.

                                                          – W.W.

 

                              

            

                                   

                              

                        PROVENÇAL


                    With a nun of a moon flirts a firefly
                    drawn like iron into the waves
                    of the magnet-veils the virgin sheds
                    as she withdraws naked up the sky's stairs
                    with slow but unassailable hauteur.


                    (from "Thief With Leaf" by Brian Chan)