Language 3x8

for C.B. & B.A.

1
in. in.
how to be in-
comparably
blowing.
neither up
nor out.
how daily
able.

2
sting
ray.
don’t spare
a penny.
blunt a tube.
a sparkler.
bright & like a kite.
in any air.

3
by. one. to build in
build a stable flow.
the matter
suicidal. their range
complete.
this volubility.
this insight.
showing their capacity for play.

2.1.79
recovered: 2008

NOTE. A poem, written early in our friendship, for Bruce Andrews & Charles Bernstein, never previously published, & dedicated anew.