Lytle Shaw

 

 Bummer Tent

These looser fleets come around
        time to time
lambasting water-slaps
        at your summer camp -- 
a song like "Lady Bird"
        brings them entwined
        horsey kundalini.

Horseshit, his brother rules
        an elbow knows
tables surround our eyes

        Beard finger
        neglected yard work

this arm chair tackle
has trouble with answers.

 For Coventry Patmore

Thus we availed him to boat about,
send word of gloat
Admiral Nelson style.
If I spell it out, it would resemble
a small town shown.

Showing says the ladron
involves a quantity of human mass
carved angel pending.

So rock schemes, wit strips
lift our additions
to the budget bucket:
headlong thunks
sink sounds in
Coventry Patmore's hair gel
or the canals in Tucker Boatwright's county.