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Finally done.

"POE

The vagabond mistake lived embodied in a cat
which gathered dust in a neighbor’s shady backyard
after choking on crow bones. You proclaim Poe
to be mandatory, soon to be a major motion picture,
some lonely shut-in pining over what puzzled him
left conversing to taxidermy with ghostly powers,
the laudanum on the fritz. Some of us are insatiable
as Maoists who trip over hurdles, a Great Leap
which wrecks the scene, broken circle emblemized
in the letter C. Nihilistic trooper abandons ardor
for documentation, lionesses lining every dank gutter
in Baltimore. I know I have slapped at the spectral
when reduced to magical thinking, yet some get all
the grief and crowds as those open-faced pillagers
who never were rapacious swat into their invisibility
with a wet sock. I listened to that suffocating cat
half-past a mope, fugitive comfort, a gutted grouper."

--Gordon Hilgers on Fb

The circus enters a new phase, watercolor painting, salvador dali.

thunder shirt not thwarted
this among heard verdicts
& shall we 'scape skullcrack
schemed against each instant

glaucous terse zaglossus
glowworm in the firm dark
dancer among dingbats
adult with the cultists

yesterday's rain roosting
wraps gray wings this capsule

To the smoky light.