El Egg

VI. Murder in the Stadium






Sense datum in the data stream.

Breakwater of torsoes.

Ploy bodies for zeroing in on plurals.

Not the same as the pigeon-holing process. Game of numbering birds.

What leafs through quantity measured as counting is gone for syllables mounting.

The flame on a petal. As it rose, so somatic.

To hold back the torn portals from the system.

Lung holds lung as if on patrol.

What is it means. Prowess.

Headstone of the westing plank.

Buzzing constants. Double consonants.

All night I think on inkling.

The execution of sleep-stealers.

Can't see the wick in mind for a bank of light.

Thanks to the dinks in the dotted distance.

To recap: the moon somewhere, the eyes not closed, the dictionary vigilant.



The air-conditioned crickets swell, flick against themselves.

Between the bricks another building is mortally wounded.

Sentenced to observe the pendant drool.

The marginal aspect of description in which a voice inscribes subvocally.

Leaned across an agate swoon.

Swings slow as wings low against what passes for air.

Silky sidereal.

Three beats and a fretwork. Arcades are slanted.

Slot the prance, coiled and caustic.

Never left to be alone, the coming wind as meant.

Beyond -- even that preposition.



As time to sleep too slow.

Loose cinders annex books.

Spooks are spokes of a real spoken here.

Things that can be scooped up out of permanence.

Taxis point between areas of belief in the map of night.

As if too late for syncope.

Amortize one's worst fears.

What to value in the mollified dusk.

To breathe in the ideal vehicle and wheel it around to reveal a real vehicle of power.

Meanwhile, it is being spoofed.




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