Angel threadbare cloth straw wings fringed puzzled grey imp

indistinct as water stained gesture perhaps raised elbows feet

or heave to turn chiffon spread grave dweller grist of creasing

Dust lit stone yards of soft acid flowers rain tattered shimmer

may you in what in what mud lips mouth shape as if to speak

or fill with sleep the run black gutters street through the falls

Debris twisted pipes pulled extruded wings wired deep houses

fall through early morning pollen shifting on the nest downy

white froth of dressed brides bridal beds bloody white rooms

Visited you whisper hiss sibilant thin backwards noise beyond

sound useless then abjuring sense or we cannot being carried

lead soft as if lounging in the thick air you levitate as all good

Angels must you recede appear include excess buffed silver

disintegrate for elegant effect sprightly frilled swept upwards

from some shimmer dais outnumber outflank pavane shiver

Rilke Klee Bunuel exterminators contain precipice torrent faces

turning buzzard hair leaves pianos harmoniums church organs

cold Messiahs collapsed spaces walls elegant slow adagio

Consumatum est what’s one more mirror one more drone one more

angel one more poet more or less