Ebb

i:

the rain------

cometh


[where most we feared, a splinter

of windowsill]

&…

ii

pointed toward God:

“I have come home to you,

blue naphtha--firesong”

let us

paint silhouettes

out of shale

sediment---

ash,           estuary

&…

iii:

let us

pull the sea

(a)back

revealing the once-swathed
menageries of black-gray

sole

  [lost in torrent]

iii:

let us rain

down

emulsified
stars

in a verdigris sky

  [restless
is the bird

falling

from

firmament]

iv:

all wild in what eye

accosts sight

&…

v:

Genesis

midst

the waters

The Sum Equals the Whole of its Parts

ask
what the vulture
pecks only want (?)
:eventually a gash, formed
:evening skin beckons

a headless, beakless, eye-
less

the wild loon

))with moon
in its sclera ((

what remains
has undergone haruspicy

&
famine in the liver
:a bloat of stomach
:a sliver of jaw
:the last emaciated remainder
of tongue
positioned
between the gnaw