Imperial Vestments

Loss
the last ground

alights at daybreak

Waves spin at the steles

                          Soil
works
in desultory cond—icating

shadows

             work

—creage

beneath laddering fennel

Imperial Vestments II

Orchards clear

but hornfuls
numerable in the underleaves

Building palm-earth

We walk
walk the handsome lotus

Hot luvia
Streamers

in the lust waters
Eating

Graves
court the accidental

reformation: formations
the story resources: reinforces

titanium
hung Vegetative

green
from the lights, a

moan
at dusk

Imperial Vestments III

Fig Alm Wart

Air, ow
ow—ow            Diamond
            Arms

Burning Dumps

New armatures
flower
in musk The Discount Tent

Imperial Vestments IV

Lifted

the flood
against divers roots

pounded open, laughing

blink
the thistle fence
down the highway

never
leaving the backyard
river of carbon

burned, but towers

Left him there
Combed his hair
With dye

Imperial Vestments V

Chinese camp

Miniature vestments

Imperial silk

und / y / to     skeleton

(our way back
from the valley
within the valley proper, O Lear—
Order strapped to our chests
They had no chance Let’s leave them)  

The Pines have work currently appearing in Absent Magazine, CAB/NET, Cranky, Hot Whiskey, and elsewhere, as well as in the ongoing series The Pines (Volumes One, Two, and Three available; Volume Four: Black Sabbath Volume Four, recently released in print and on vinyl). They are among the contributing editors for CutBank, Octopus, and Ugly Duckling Press.