Christopher Mulrooney


...................................the unpossessed

.................................................writhing in the cucumber
.................................................of corollary pain
.................................................like sunlight
.................................................kept for a wintry day
.................................................in a book
.................................................on the children’s shelf
.................................................in a library




autel

factures expressively spoken
spark further discourse
written down in hands
at the ready

slighted down the years
like ears of corn
oxen tread down
throughly sated

it can’t be just
the one thing
jellied
for no scones

the English breakfast thyme
and Sinclair paints
in the garden shed we wonder
if that is all anything does that




excuse

my dust
the road she’s the one
in the sun
the dusty old oak
leaves it behind

the rosy odors
evaporated


in Rodin's workshop

the little weak-kneed figurine
on the bandstand the palette knife
wheels and turns
the breastplates of Walküren
the figures of Archimedes
et voilà the chicken is soup

I have a man made
it will have to love me
no better than a shit in a snowstorm
but it’s a start

the grand patineurs on the ice
axe me with a new siphon
framboise and chocolates
do you Terry and Cherry
I do