beddybye

vespertine
adj.

1. Of, relating to, or occurring in the evening.
2. Botany. Opening or blooming in the evening.
3. Zoology. Becoming active in the evening, as bats and owls; crepuscular.

[Latin vespertīnus, from vesper, evening. See vesper.]

How Good To Be Still

How good to be still—completely
Still, arrested in space if not time—
An extended comma before the
Ampersand. Like—at least
Between blinks—the planes
Stuck above the coast like
Misshapen stars on their
Way to Newark. Like—before
You look too close, before
The birds come home—a copse
On a pretty day.

Singult

Living above the trees is like
Living above death;
I can see but I cannot touch.
But maybe there is no sight in death;
Maybe the salvo of spectrums will be sloughed away
And there will be perfect light—
Like walking past the quad before
The last class of the day
And becoming fully aware
For one unsyncopated beat
Of the color the air takes
Between the trees
And above the dormant grass.

Yesterday I saw a spider mid-air.
I was seized by fear that it would fall—
And breathed again when it found the brick.

I would have killed it had it come inside.




singult
n.
a sigh or sobbing; a hiccough.

4/1/09 [Nightmare]

I dreamt once that a
Hummingbird followed me home;
I thought it a bee

And struck it—bird
Went one way, beak another, and
Whatever message that
It had to deliver was
Lost.

At night, unless the moon is particular
About the angle at which it falls,
The ocean disappears; between
The Verrazano cradle
And the dim lights of New Jersey,
There is only a vacancy,
A synapse waiting to be bridged
By a cruise ship, sometimes with fireworks,
Or a freighter. And sometimes
There is the same vacancy by day,
Only then there is no warm dark waiting,
But a cold violet fog.

alpha

perhaps
adv
maybe, possibly.
[from Middle English perhap : per, by (from Latin; see per) + hap, chance; see hap.]