hydra II

a grassy room without vegetables
and is where to sing amazing graves
or is navigable — hair carpets
her vast collection of collectibles.

dust settles everything
what you gather is predetermined
by these activities I/thee
reproached in ridiculous vacuum.

II. (

smear a painting out of it
hot gas lines exhume
everything joe mccarthy
said or did i can replace it
alphabetically every fixture
filled with camera canisters

and “loosed upon” what you
will not talk. bill madlock
exemplified this before his
buttons were pushed. bill
madlock is a a screen for the
possibility of going mad,
even as a coach.

which is the lighted side of leaves,
which turns over and glowers
which is why you’re graded
and explains the inception
of filmed court proceedings.

flowers go mad and are filmed by no one.

III.

what they did made sense at the time.
to think about this

MOVE was very popular for
a philadelphia moment)
which is central to the organizing
principle, which turns on —
“part of a century”
“Pagoda” and high rise
feral.

IV.

when you was in tune
all the animals who lived
in your room. i believe in
witches should not have hung,
which

V.

where is everything.
in its context,
speaks the “disappeared”
where cuts through
is the lived parceled
composite regnant
an inhabitant
I’m an animal
with grey green horizons

that the ridges of branches
perceptibly be
where the animals live
untold or free,

whole dialects stricken
where it becomes “town”
the silence is coming.

Philip Jenks (© 2001)