Christopher Mulrooney

 

 

 

 

    In a western ghost town

     

    the never-figured forth

    figured very strongly

    as the black applies

    to any hearse or

    caisson

     

    variorums of the likely happenstance

    migrate to these waters

     

    shipshape the very expanse

    of sky

    holds its own

     

    the purblind with tears

    stumble allusively

     

     

     

     

    The waterfront project

     

    oh they’ve heard all about you

    and your wish

    to see the fish

    leaping into airline cargo containers

    ice like snow

    on the asphalt

     

    how the buckets dip

    and go down into the sea

    you shall not see

    not if the rearguard consortium

    can help you now it is

    not the help it is made out to be

     

    paint the good coat of paint

    over the sides

    lest any see