That summer night we—mostly me—drank two bottles of wine
By the days-old dregs of yard sales
Unusual weathervanes
Anomalous times
Twig woven windows
Fake marble columns
An ox on my tongue
A slow leak on the will to live
Irreversibly sprung
Unusual weathervanes
Rigorous times
Illegitimate blues, approximate rhymes
Unusual weathervanes
Bearing troublesome news
of difficult passages and illegitimate blues
It’s the cornice
It’s the frill
at the edge of the sound
The cantaloupe thud
The dull slap
Of the head hitting ground
A soggy day, another lost winter
“An inconclusive sign”
You flicked at your neck
I covered mine
Unusual weathervanes
Unfortunate times
Illegitimate blues, proximate rhymes
Unusual weathervanes
Impossible news
Rigorous passages, illegitimate blues
It’s the chorus
It’s the void
at the heart of the song
A case for carelessness
A callow plea to get along
Unusual weathervanes
Insoluble times
Illegitimate blues, impossible rhymes
Unusual weathervanes
Unfortunate news
Troublesome passages, illegitimate blues
Treacherous passages, illegitimate blues
