as usual, what?

because i don't know what i'm doing.

round objects

whole wildflower heads

and massy colors:

things to swallow,

things to keep down for tomorrow.

the aligned refrigerator door.

the waste of toothpaste hitting sink walls.

the hat;

the pellucid flesh

of the baked potato.

hold me down,

o mind, o heart,

twined in bosses like an egret:

rosy, like

shaky, stick-fingered dawn.