Poet as hark

– Poet as hark
As thimble, ear, sense of what
As hark – where the sense of what gives ear to

Wednesday – where each noon is assembled, bled a
New

As sense of when; harm is pillow; dire
Banked – where we growl away the sense of where

– How does the poem listen?
How does the poem listen?
With the

Bulb of the pen in still
Ness giving

The moon a month to stare –
How does

The poem listen? as agree
Ment to

Stay on course as the jet
Of ink

Relents; off course the well
Blurts out

–

There is a source I draw from, a source


         asking
for the leaf to wither now as it is time
asking for the
                       weathered
                       gin of yester
day to cease to 
                       day
this source where dank mixes with sweet mixes with musk