they are carnations

they are carnations



wishfulthinking vernation wends and undulates,
prudence nowhere to be found. an intransigent
courier with a ticket-of-leave in one clammy
fist and a yabbering eruption in the
other, waiting for the countercoup.
checkerblooms
annex the motherlode; a portentous and
seriocomic frankpledge. regeneration
in segments is a loaded hermeneutics that
disheartens with deadeye delicacy.