Cool Mama ..land strays
Bowery dime on ( “Baby, baby”)
broken sill —toss
crime cousin buckled
’rounding pink
Spalding ball (“Baby, baby”)
“rays’ tunneling
analogous clock terracing”;
Hay cooper-
cross-tread-
Fourth (Ave.) slog. ( ..ooh.”)
Betty Smith, Dearest
Trees grow in Manhattan, too,
uphill of the Houston Street
fed side, the other’s
other Bridge
chain-link-scrawl
cargo rattling off echoes of
old payphone beats, cozy
gut punches,
unscripted, unseen
by the Drive: base court
revelations abjure little scum
slim fronted grunts,
initializing a dummied up descent,
cherrywood, cigar store
indigent canceled in
need to re-
remember that
tree grown in Manhattan, too.
Wresting Face
Take pride, rightdoing thing!
Avoid flophouse
shows! Re-up and up on course,
of course! Investigate,
study, require
a negated letter, a weakness!
Find quietism (Nice,
shapeshift form walkin’ Bargain
District: pigeon plucks reluctant,
compound bone).
In the while cool
world shortly, deployment
of elfland variant, sculpted
catatonic; Not cloaked,
timorous traps: Boiling tenders’
descriptions, moving out,
against — again enflamed,
theomorphic, a Hirsch-
like critical leg;
Caught smoking,
’45 mask taut,
(wrapped) over my head.