Poorly

Shocks too enormous to heap and to absorb.

Seasons,
sorrow, so
plentiful an articulated herd can’t be made
out.

A downing if
repeated on

oneself. Suffocating within millions,
infinitesimal

unbreathing by.

The flag is dry, now slackened.
A dishrag’s

posture frieze:
stupefied aloft

Cooper Square’s quiet row. The people’s ill.
‘What morons’

sez cracked
skin, grime; chalk; slather; mooning, as

a lupine
abeyance

packed up,
lining across, just up – and just after – East
Houston.