U R a “swan” inside my
afternoon.
Delirium is a trinket
cut in half.
2:50: river plaid state
2:51 gymnasium lily
In the bath tub
I wrote NOTES
about
yr fleece and yr math.
I wrote a Lincoln and baked
myself awake
I swam all summer,
indeterminately
(your) oblong
comets
thumb velvet
in an indentation
of purring.
2:53
Eleven dogs cried
the color of reptiles,
plus or minus the inside,
hurt in Leffe
a pattern
in a tablecloth repeats.
At 2:54 (some articles of loathing)
(the Teflon in a river *
of beer
U R November,
what) is a year
Black,
and a few
ellipses
) *)
in a summer powder
Copyright © 2024 by Tan Lin. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on October 4, 2024, by the Academy of American Poets.
