Excerpts from Emptied of All Ships

from "shift at oars"


water
relives
reservoir


boat
bottom
draft
displaced



    º



lineal
thought
backward
body


no one
knows
the brains
I am now


_____


tree
an oar
origin


joints ruptured
soak in
deep ink


  
     º


wallpaper
remnant
flower
float

chandelier


brief case
hundred words
logged

erode
my
Arabic


_____


congestion
of resin

person



forecasts
final position

restless sleep



    º



width of
back
belted

sodium
poultice

exhausts
courtship


_____


agora


drain
a home
of you

wind
lashes
fronds


cellophane



    º



where a
mammal
bled


activity
not yet
diffused


blackened
patch
of water


_____


weight
of oyster
in gloved
hand he
shucks


dented
pewter



    º



assonance
her aspect

relocated


wind
shatters
plexi

phenomena
forgone
for me





shift
at oars

new
muscle
grown
bone

never
held
you



    º



case
of dried
apricot


gorge


I am
summoned



















capable
a day


outlast
forecast


coral reef



feeler



    º



paper
cover
mallet
awl

downfall


fire-
box


androgyne