Excerpt from “Arrondissements”:
I forget the word for pepper, poivre, s’il vous plaît, sudden and unforeseen, but le chef knows what I mean eventually and adds it to my crêpe, all travel resulting in pacing the streets of multiple photogeneity, unexpectedly, in all the ways other cities are photogenic,
Excerpt from “Probability of x”:
how does it go again
the use of ropes or the avoidance of magnets
an ocean voyage or swimming in your tub
virus not a cell benign and happy in its own company
Excerpt from “Lumilipad pa sa ala-paap”:
a muscle moving underwater
for the notes it makes
every fin conducting dreamily
through clouds of silt
roiling in a chase for food
flex and bend of the body
the clouds then unburden
a timpani on the umbrella
percussing the lilypad’s stem
Excerpt from “banana”:
for hunger’s sake : beholden :
portable : shaped for the hand : completely
equivalent to every answer
you can think of
Excerpt from “Parsimony”:
purposeless epaulettes
the spots don’t change
inherited freckles, circumstantial
a leopard wanders in, panting