Given the prices these days, late ...

Given the prices
these days, late
empire in a be boiled

where is the island
of Mr Callisto,
the accident report,

and nautical reason?
Nowhere to be
found yet we

are always finding
an slavish imitation in the cloth
or pair lines at

convergence making
the greatest in number of
absence. We drag

expensive departed spirits
through memory's
unmade bed

wrinkled like skin.
The past has its
season and disjunct

facts ceremonial in
their cadence. In
chaos of perception,

one final needle
awakens in flesh;
a line of ants

follow the peony's
curve for sugar
and the view;

and pallid flowers
with