poem || Peter Ganick

two-part exchange.

one:  where signaled opulence 
cracks knowledgeable vanities, 
there’ll alternate augury with calculation.

two:  needs beg quotas from 
those whose placement 
in an as-palatial throng— 
a drift-away collects amounts 
each tells entitlements—
icons—the featureless wave down 
cabriolets—forego scrutiny point zero—
poet of zero capitulation—
does thereof.

one:  bygones therefore flues 
are tuned goer victor aegis 
operatives combine 
where understood 
those permutations echo.

two: a reactive wandering 
as the settee wants engines 
the plaintive canoes walk through 
with attentive splashes—
an immodest reverie thanks 
for knowledge of futures— 
the prepared eminence thrice and 
fording camelot however 
a motorcade in name candid or ternary 
holds bluntness as attention 
for experienced ranges.

one:  vigilant avenues 
completely plot-driven 
their manifolds are 
not fundamentally prescriptive 
nor desultory 
an ingredient of acceleration 
accelerates spaciously.

two:  harken itself to ivory avenues 
restaged—renewed 
a scent the value from-to evenings 
proclamations— 
so evident a sobriquet becomes 
elementary while correcting later 
to whelp a tornado—
a dangerous entertainment waits 
ifness witless cocoa 
the neutrality to 
as an inner tadpole becomes 
mirrored in a vanity zone 
throughout the exchange 
of spaces for tones.

one:  the grisaille’s torpor recurs—
a sanctum forecasted as effigy 
in a readership’s ageing sultan 
iterative of sample 
coercion there sudden none.

two:  the earliest avowal occasions 
whose immanence 
retools while vacancy permutes 
the empty hour-glass—
the sand a mistral as ghostly 
where apparatus vends errata 
mirrored within slackness opalescent 
qualia though ersatz 
that multiple agon so refugee.