Paul Siegell




her memorable philadelphia hell

"vehicula" costumes: fang, sailboat of candle
flame in welcoming window--

the dream address, where thought got through:

glue legs to a crab claw, call it a bird--

plan prosthetic experiments on corrugated
iron roofs--

could such compositions fault creation?

flight-life ready, die laughing.

out to cobblestone, stroll, autumn, the always
wonderful--

a wheelchair of pixie sticks and Swedish fish,
favorites--

painted, every leaf a painstaking rhapsody, but
more these philadelphians found:

the critical ridicule of the medicine
machine, mechanical candy, a wig

on a parking meter, and all about the mind
of a brain tumor:

a clinging acorn of impeded aims, and every
pang from the voice of turning the corner.








homeward woods forward

echad.
countless sounds
                                    silence-covered

      rural murals

                     your picture of snow
focused

shtayim.
photo, potatoes, a turtle--childhood rules
                                         set alight

      snowflakes of thot

spirit bringers
                               toward offspring
                                         technique

      slices of cake

shalosh.
      poetics however
                               potentialities

among its many monks

                                         joy watch

patrol the vastness
                               satellite-like

      enceinte with ideas

                     for home




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