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if you don’t see the diagrams at night
you may not have the eyes of an owl
but blown paper can surely smack you in the face
and perhaps
spin you down
like a chloroformed rag.

it only takes a few seconds
and then you can lie under stone in watered geometry
and decompose as primate
or grow as fungi.

artwork is the gray smell of an urban day,
___________a haze that blunts the snap of crickets
as they cough in reedy fields.
smokestacks are screws placed in bone
to bridge a fracture site.
new births,
________ubiquitous as traffic signs,
will not go away.

stuck with pins and little flags,
evidence is everywhere:
you don’t need a lab coat to be a scientist.
altered dna laughs at you
and refuses to identify itself.

oxygen is a black and white tv

you can’t see the scum for looking

it is often this way with witnesses.