As/Is







9.24.2004


High Hatted Pupa (Hammer-dazed_

hammer dazed

in circular energies

living trees hoist
the lagoon
in frog-tiered baskets

lifting up by whose
unclear motions
reconcile
voices of cloud
conjoined

strapped into each seat
some other frog
or ministers
sleep
befuddled
luminous
from their journey
back from Mu

where the high-hatted
minstrels of coin
shattered black idols
on a monstrous altar
of skin

and made declarations
whose contours
were illegible
by symbol