You Be the Judge

You stand and watch the patient rain.

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i.

Hey! Just calling to check in.
I didn’t want to call too soon!

I was hoping to catch you at home.
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With the meats and the poultry all spoiling
       for a terrible fight,
nutrient extraction is the natural objective.
       The produce, too, must be purified.

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O merriest, wiliest, and holiest of harlots! ~ Edward IV

The poet works the room the way she works words.
Her students lead thesauresed lives,
ape tropes poached from livid legends,
derive new meanings from stale or stolen selves:

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In computer science, conditional constructs are sometimes referred to as “If-Then-Else” statements: if a condition is met, then an action is performed; if the condition is not met, then an alternate action is executed.

What if I were
        to begin
                this poem with a declarative?

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after Helen Hunt Jackson’s “November”

This is the beguiling month when
autumn days betray my summer lusts,
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for Dawn Thompson

There is only one rule
of any real value
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Mrs. Butterworth stands on the windowsill
of the Christianson Ranch shack, whose door
stands agape with the hasp-screws rotted out.
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