1.
 
         The white light is
 
unkind  unspooled
 
          into opacity’s dim drain
 
                   all colors freighted
 
presentiment
 
                    and slow architecture of a hull
 
                                     thin shade sticks
 
                unweighted         
 
                       before sleep      
 
                                                          figurative
 
                                           cruelty of the dream       cave
 
                   blown apart   
 
                                  unwarned fears 
 
            body suspended in its storied fold 
 
                          return of the mother witch.
 
 
2.
 
From this thimble of cold
 
        stiff weave     
 
                               could trace
        
                        a patient aperture  
 
                                               
 
face rallied for a swarm 
 
             and other annotated masks
 
                                      escaped to elsewhere
 
                     holding their wretched rhymes in check
 
 
blather of guide
 
             its singular call      as if to follow along
 
                             a collect or     ruin of the field
 
                 having not warmed up  having disobeyed the command
 
                            prelude held at the site  mouth agape
 
chastised by claims   real chains and real straps      harbor of the world
 
her plural   her various  momentums    halted  
 
                            installed. 
 
 
3.
 
And so release the episode from its snarl
 
       names of the untransformed
 
                                     not birds
 
 
       their rigorous archive or commons   to warrant, to list       retrieval   
 
                          outside narrative dusk
  
                                         history’s mercurial roost     
  
         girl at the cemetery gates    bridge across      urban colossus  crowd
 
                                             photographed after the fact and after the fact
 
                              erasures     
 
                  revisions
 
                                  images         snow angels     
 
                     and the great black crow
 
                              indicting the hawk
 
                          yet to be spoken thought
 
                                                  startled into last light   
 
                                not ghosts
 
              hungry in the aftermath   identical quantum cast as flight
 
                                                                                   long roped beards of ice     weeping.