Easy Eating

more feeling than memory a bird
calling from the topmost branch
a voice from a crowded stage hid
behind bright ideas in forbidden
dream utterance speak to no one
unless called then rise occasions
report our less admirable results
limit understanding further war
supposed intentions declassified
too late alarms identify new day
old errors coded for easy eating

Real Potatoes

promise of flowers redeems chilly days greengrocer's stage stock real potatoes season changes if I match its slowness will I be rewarded dreaming after death feet like paddles forbid rough questions the subject elusive but wordings exact enigmatic signifier blameless imagined youth once again finding possible lives