[Kay Syrah]

All reeds begin their song
in the rush of dark equations

Desire empties thought of substance
stalking the empirical with the lyrical

Ecstatic iterations are more or less
regardless of the aftermath

Now gifted with mystic certainty
progressions chart the disposessed.

[Camachee]

you haunted
hallways
in rare-book stores
stalking
the pornography
of burton
the plaintiveness
of byron
and the endless
preamble
of blake
for my sake

what did
you learn
besides
yearning