Grayscale breath on a fluid
field, with lo-fi
rainpatter — petrol blue — ,
a 60-watt sun uns
-crewed from the
woebegone sky: rip-
rap & coal slurries,
dragline & loess, what phosphor
-us is a semaphore
for, silklike
in its acoustic shadows
louver away, or stay
when I move:
figures astray from the mercury
dark — shatterproofless,
shutterproofless,
image noise
stressing each contour to
strass —
as if the margins were
swarming with
centers, or cinders
— "Ecchoes
to the Eye" —
or Cinderella's slipper
blown of poly -
vinyl butyral
& laminated glass