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S C A T T E R.

      "upgrade bullying"

palimpsest lore · catalyst car
spraypaint sutra · disaster hole
watchtower tidings · baroque orchid
   scattered brawl
   in brown liquid
   cast iron foyer

an old reader · of written clouds
beneath crenellated · crabgrass
on 8-track intrude · no conversation
among brownshirts · & certain poets
   slim passage
   for green parrots

a watched eclipse · clamoring crowd
hubcap hooky · & dire reprieve
borrowed word · wending earthward
   these random streets
   & forks offered
   drumly sweepstakes

remarks watchtower · tenderly threatens
what time is left · leaves swirl
old guitar solos · on scratched records
   place of the skull
   placates vicars
   & antique pistol

Witch Doctors of Bolivia.

"You shift your sea-space blindly
Heaving, turning like the blind crab."

—Allen Tate via

"...salient frameworks of causation..."