discrete series:
Dove/Sleep
sleep’s whitefaced
hoplite draws
our portraits:
gouache of hair,
epistrophe
of blandished eyes:
accede: &, ten-
dent, the apophatic
recompense:
in gums & stays
more loyal:
apogee & perigee:
marled in rain,
coordinate (naut.)
or Eucharist:
takes on
legacy: buoyant:
some vertical
precision,
cross-fletched
under-rib: as
Interval: virescent:
this birdscape:
discrete series:
North Star
creator mundi:
sediment psalm:
fructifying
structures lamp:
mortise, jade
tenon: liminal
digit
of phosphor:
struck: a tone
enlists: faith’s
wax amplitude:
cartouche or
cognomen:
inheres: eye-
stutter,
the fact returns
the mind
with interest
due: con-
stellating organ
matter: blaze
anthem:
phonetic awl:
sever & rise:
this tongue
a livid husking:
Bright Wednesday
now the crickets
in their temporary
warmths temporary
war, circle
other conic sections
genuflect into
the lonely sister / -eye,
a Chagall donkey
nightingale soot-rose
we light as tapers
not the small
gods of breathing-
autumn wage utterly
as not-song, not-
poplar, volute, wine
the figs in their
glabrous carriages
arriving now blown &
pointing dove-
spline spoked bodywall
a different poverty,
I have lost
nothing wren-planes
of the hospital
flags, bridge-end
epithets field system
sunflower matrix
the asymptotic &
plenary nervure,
turn inward milk-
testament (as participle)
egg / wound / egg
on the fourth tone
un-mothed, un-
bridled functions burl
limbed & preterite,
thrown up against
that cell / division, into
music or no
local burden
(custom) solemn
bird-sheet atoms
in the joint
conspire to shake
from the best of us
~
constructs
a Western landscape
stents & mule-rust
mask nor
public spectacle,
—irrigation latch
~
((that which gathers
the other, gathered hand
mind is estranging,
song is estranging
the immigrant math recommends
two oaks at cross purposes
goldfinch? earthquake? pinhole?
—rubbish mound or broken branch
antimony, what pure horoscope
(above // the apiaries of Thebes) 
G. C. Waldrep’s most recent books are The Arcadia Project: North American Postmodern Pastoral (Ahsahta, 2012), co-edited with Joshua Corey, and a chapbook, Susquehanna (Omnidawn, 2013). BOA Editions will release a long poem, Testament, in 2015.
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