I feel like when I go swimming at the gym and it seems like I've been swimming for a long time, and I stop to check the clock and I've been swimming for like 5 minutes.

This one is cheating because it was not written today, or this month for that matter. But you've never seen it before, so just pretend that I'm lying.

CAROUSEL HORSE




Flesh a ship’s flesh

bones the bones 

of the dead
a gilded instrument   

bespangled

trotting mouth 
agape  at

München 

 Follow 
the cameleopard
 Leviathan
my brother
 Ark  lion: 
blade & frost born M.

Illions chopped  loudly painted 
 round haunches

 a kouros
for the children-burden 
for the brass ring-
clink into fingers
the lightbulbs’ glowworms

matte wooden axle-Bavaria
in a child or monk’s hand,
Neuschwanstein, always
mountain-sized 
 mädchen &

scale errors 
never daunted
 giving

as only object can
love inanimate animate love 



 mount

of God
  (nostalgia)
of History 
 (nostalgia).

In the loop powerless 
seizing

gazes & bodies
Touched
moreso than 
a quick beast

in successions’ rosary 
 leisure station 

 such as I am

wooden phantom, a cog
no less perfect 

moving

stasis
orbit & archetype, 

warped & buckled

ever resplendent 

plastic finery

bronze tack & rod

unclosed eyes 

trotting always

toward my brothers & sisters
away from my brothers & sisters