Two Summer Poems

Two Drafts of Summer Poems

Dog days Whining

Coldy summer sweat--

crimson curtain billows==

and if the air shattered

and the glass was not replaced--

Bones outlast the meat

ask the chicken bones the rats drag off

and gnaw upon neath dark city bushes.

            songs git forgotten

birds outlast songs--

            feathers outlast birds

            how my brothers growl

amongst the bone yard of dog days

whining

and strangers slamming doors

in the dark hallway at three a.m

II 

 

Heavy rains sultry upon-- whilst

Indian summer  rusts and needs a shuckin

and the skull can be a tin roof and the hair a bunch O

briars---

Outside--the nautical maneuvers of clouds---

When the night clears and the stars shine a sheathing sparkle

I know there is no outer space.  Only

the grotesque collisions of inner space.

and then i'm watchin a ghost taking a piss in tha river.

  

crickets loud turn my blood into powder--