Testament To the charts, I leave the lines that meana sudden sinking, others that mean a shelf. My bricks I leave to the fireplace, althoughthey are both crumbling and neither will holdoff the birds or a particularly intrepid snake. The snakes may have the iris bed, whateverthat ivy is that trails along the hem of…

You became rock when you stopped moving.You thought when you were done, This must be how God felt the third day; but it wasn’t a flesh,I-just-created-earth feeling. You couldn’t forget how you slid over the ground in bubbling rivers,ordering everything before you to lie down and beg. Often now your mouth feels like the dirt stuckin…

1 The tide withdraws from garbagestrewn below Front Street,exposing barnacles cemented along fissuresin transmission casings. Mussels self-shackle to a cast-off refrigerator.From within a thicket of drizzle,crows trade insults and harvestdiscard. Ravens plunder refuse, chuckling.Wind ruffles their shiny hackleswhen they plump themselves against the chill. 2 Does the pot say to the potter,“Love, Love,I must teach…