scouring the web

a cold clay bowl rests within a birch
overflowing, this exceptional receptacle
resolves in bounded space
that has no place
at intervals, beyond the tree or among it: there
odes owe to writing the class of letter
Victorieusement fui le suicide
that elsewhereness of writing's ploy
writing's dilettantish mistress not loving loves the turn else without these leave-takes

oh lend a place an inside,
where I leaving have a grace

Blot

floundering the    not
cawing of     disjecta
coming from  the sea
coming to      the sea

touching the        lot
pawing spumes grey
again pouring    curd
curd of love       that

settling into     what
       mildewed page
erratum in a   taught
neutralised      gale?

this way I  seek plot
  sopping   splotches 
subtler as delirium in
your second's stead

a shifted    shingle 
remonstrance    ...
noon's     obsequy
and the sea turning