Poem For eecummings

“Here is a rubbish of human rind

with a photograph clutched 

in the half of a hand

and the word ‘love’ underlined.”

Bulging soul on street corner…

proud hush

powerless raw island

brutish goofball crackdown

earthborn arbitrary mystery

decadent republic

random mob

blended bland

sadness, eternity, heartbeat

hallucination.

“Here is a dog of no known kind

with one white eye and one black eye

and the eyes of its eyes

are as lost as you’ll find.”