April 20-23

ancient times like
now wind buried
in a moment

court mendacious brews
of blubber that

bubble in turmoil
ruses recoil or
blather rapid descent

toward unstable deficit
horror or honor

stick people march
along predicated path
I’d prefer to

aver but fall
in line all

same gaps then
grapes then furtive
rhymes open proverbs

in florid times
hither and thither

fluid we stalk
until we don’t
as aisles revoke

their blessing with
myriad aplomb gusting

at gales while
the doggie in
the rainbow yaps

down comes black
rain black milk

down roadways sluice
the savage detectives
King’s crown slumps

in ravaged thinking