PROCESSION
by Rodney Dailey II
Against, the clip, the clip the paint.
Its panting, the snow and its
dunes pawing, pawing at the face,
the nostrils flaming, drooling
the drooling. The shovel and its
attitude, digging up snow,
digging up earth with the snow,
dipping in, digging up green
with the earth, the follicles
green, the green,
suspicion, the salt, the color,
the color of glowing decay
the face, the face, the snap
the snap, white
Tendons, tentacles, stem,
The white buds, the stem,
lilies, the years, the years,
the blackened street,
the fish, lilies, the fish, beating,
Beating the number at the end
Of the driveway, the driveway,
the bracketed collar, the band,
finished, the fish,
the landscape's endless drivel,
the figured entry, the entry,
the loose muscle, the droop,
the face, the drooping,
profile, the profile figured
the smooth, slack tongue
the slick, the slick mucous, the
slide of red, the red cap,
reading color, the nonsense,
the sense, the nonsense,
the loss, the loss, the wonder
the picture, the work,
working, the tonged drag,
the drag, the reject,
known; lifted and covered,
wrapped, covered, swollen
city, swelling market,
swollen ankles on
the auction block. Final
so final. The drink, the
drink, messenger at the top,
the top, the luminous,
the blast, the underearth, the top
the under, the city, the melted
lantern, the dead fish flipped
upside, the dead, the dead
together, the fissure,
digging up green, the white,
the figure lifted. Against.