the mittens are off

"The script is Armenian, but the language is Ottoman Turkish..."

firefly in my dream
abstract frost
over what i may or may not cede

grin demanded by the age
cloud boundaries, samovar thesterness church
in the see-through urn

to my Ba
i offered up a prayer of dimness
revenge of the pangolins · em'rald neons

on the broken walls parks bad
with a voice like a mad rook
leprotic 'dillodom reigns supreme

fake want ad
singing washer approaches hope in the end
jet black cicala

air nostril cut new the fad
inert shoal coded
ghosts in Noh

last bouquin carried · in Alexandria
by the sprockets' gold-vermilion glare
limping skald

across a field of a'a
it's the next barbarian grammar
what's a thul to do?

dissolve in cold champagne perfect sphere of calcspar

"It sponsored its own design competition, awarding prizes to a comical array of colossal statues, triumphal arches and colonnades."