Who dispenses the cold wears the mask
plays the wanderlust legato     pawns the knickknacks
undoes the formulas for obedience in the name of obedience
presses the plunger

Who baptizes in creosote repatriates the cartwheel
becalms black powder
uncompresses the mustang into a jeremiad of wind shift and candelabra

Who patinas womanliness with angularities     who oils angularity with provocation
makes oblivion feel churlish     rebukes punctuation for its cautions
Its jacks and eights pluck at the non-equivalence of odds and ends
            like a harpist among the Israelites

Who gives the cold its chill bequeaths to us referendum after referendum
            and rides the leukocytes down where the sugar tit is unpracticed but electric
Impenitent the grounders up the middle   prolific the bootstrap   glad the leapfrog

Who cubes the waters breaks spectator into turbines   battens melody onto
            indiscretion
Let overstep trump originate
Resonate and cleanse unprepossess the white caps   pleasure in the lap dance of
            dandelions
Stitch and unstitch    it’s all the same zig-zag reallies    like tolling and extolling
As for godliness    let’s let that be something between a bear and its beechnuts