poem || Peter Ganick

while grazing so.

gracious accomplices
whose illumination seeks peregrine altars
return listless agonies only to slice
the storage-prosody drinking gasoline 
from calypso aisles to an enormous signatory—
craftiness waits for elevators—
for baristas—
as the macaw’s calculation immerses
familiars of deterrents voice leonine aporias.

imperial bit rates invent colossi 
returning the wisdom already
an archtectonic vanity zoned for
refutations—mascots
bridge illumination with 
an orchestra that a grail totters 
struck as above-board with the selectivity taken.

cellars and their situations—all else is
genetic residuality holding notions 
whose pearls delay delight in a rainstorm
so as to define an outside-inside disclosure—
traits in usages
don’t monopredetermine volition
whither samples derive 
leaves of proof of faith—
engages wily itness— 
we tatter as involution wields 
a snafu into the vicinity of an intersection 
so cosmic and thoroughly sparrow.