When it ices, ice

Octopus Magazine

2005-08-25T14:43:00.000-06:00

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Click on "Jill Beauchesne"

the twins

2005-06-10T15:06:00.000-06:00

sugar cubes
around
her feet.

aries moon

2005-06-10T15:04:00.000-06:00

the color of a grass-stain. speckled
day-of-the-week underwear,
honey-stains, chlorinated hair.
You show me
what the period looks like. You pull your pants down importantly.

Welcome June

2005-06-06T10:45:00.000-06:00

Its inclination,

its fish, the battle for any motion.
The plain spine, a brittle ocean,

a consenting black bed. Indian grass
strips, shatterproof glass:

what here will burn and flourish,
what here, burn and flourish.

The God of Vegas, No. 6

2005-05-16T13:21:00.000-06:00

Serve her at once

Warm

He is green, Vegas!

The God of Vegas, No. 5

2005-05-16T13:19:00.000-06:00

He rotates her in the flame.

Remove the cap, the flesh.

The green one, Vegas, is in Heat.

Then put in her
All of the green

All of the green

in the sweet and continue to

thicken
The green on
On on
On and on

The God of Vegas, No. 4

2005-05-16T13:15:00.000-06:00

The History
of Vegas:

Consuming

A sin far from its source

Betting
On the pain of its pleasure

The God of Vegas, No. 3

2005-05-12T19:40:00.000-06:00

So He was Raised

(The God, the God)

in
Beautiful
Vegas

2 in black

4 to red

red win
small hand

beat them a few times with
a let or a roll
until they are a simple need

The God of Vegas, No. 2

2005-05-12T19:32:00.000-06:00

He needs no
Introduction

Country, baby,
History and Spice

Sinning and spinning
And so Bet Vegas with Relish.

The God of Vegas, No. 1

2005-05-12T19:29:00.000-06:00

"delicious. Oh, lust
ate here just yesterday"

Humument

2005-05-12T19:18:00.000-06:00

Eleven

"That book
is accordingly now offered
to the reader.

As to what the changes are
(which I have been obliged to make)

I cannot say more, but
it is
a humument."

--TP

Caretaker

2005-05-11T15:16:00.000-06:00

And you need cups,
both full and under-size.
You need a room
to sip around the heart.

Request

2005-05-11T09:41:00.000-06:00

Talk in profile.
Talk in grief. I want
pieces of your tent,
upheld, illuminate.

2005-05-11T09:40:00.000-06:00

Rob

Hive

2005-05-11T09:36:00.000-06:00

The drone
of the honeycomb castle.
The sugar square, the rare
selection of queens.

Prism

2005-05-11T09:34:00.000-06:00

You are art waiting to break. You want
to break, opening your mouth,
tasting blue, wheeling the bitter puff
of insects and rain.

2005-05-10T22:39:00.000-06:00

Painted Rocks Reservoir

Painted Rocks Park

2005-05-10T00:03:00.000-06:00

Newly celibate, its cast
of clear claw-marks. We get here by driving.

(like the root cellar.
like the pillage for the sweet potato seeds)

2005-05-10T00:02:00.000-06:00

Jill and Abe

The bluebird thiefdom

2005-05-09T23:36:00.000-06:00

Mountain bluebirds are less skittish, less fretful,
than other songbirds I have seen.