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Vertically-oscillating pattern.

"As a crack travels round a cup, so speeds
The bat across the porcelain of dusk."

--Sackvilles' Duino, VIII

C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate.

squandersome & crisp-shadowed fall
fending nightmares not on my agenda
whispers taken at once by the blueblack zonda
fins in parallel

all the other holocausts' museum
wand'ring in my lane · i spent ten dollars
lost the thread of this sonnet & all its seers
revert to Gollum

whole boxes of my records went away
& i can hardly tell you now what's gone
yet i manage still to half complain
as the polar caps thaw

& the patterns on my mask fade in the wash

Wacky Baroque.