frictional unemployment

Hard Case Crime.

    1.
sinkhole seiche · beneath subfusc
our crowded skirmish · forward blindfold
in the garden of · accountability
shibboleths · in lieu of discernment

    2.
one unpronounceable street
crossing another

    3.
a coward's death · or a hero's
the terms · do not apply
in the razing of whole cities · in the killing time

    4.
on stilts made of debt
kept out of the muck
all the preachers of insight
lack insight
all the preachers of love
cheat & defile the poor

on stilts made of debt
kept out of the muck

    5.
a day slipped out of December
a lover of emptiness

the incandescent ones