Seeds in Cars & Houses

for Brenda Iijima

Frame|d milk on brown

Oval ply|wood o monu

Meant.  Pour moi poor

Moi pic’d the doors

Jam|ed the hole|d

Spaces in me say and

Say for stay|ed

Wood.                         Ward.                         Ave.

Cars enshrine|d the yearly

The early drive slow|ed

To see the grammar of engines

Post-Fordian             low hum names a

Time|d for skill|ed death these

Scratches            [escratches]

Never snapp|ed shots

Like the eye this is,

Drinks some re verbs

This statue|d can I talk

To a 74 chevy novas

Imagine|d registers

The monetary value

Of my mother said

Stead.                        Read.                        Drink

Up before the sun

Comes unhinge|d

For strong bones

To with|stand to cup

The shear of History

Pavements a bust of pre

The ave|s sponsors

In|stalled a deadhouse

After house says xe says

Frame|d how each

Mile we drove we

Drive stands in

For a future             WORD

Speed  ometer reads us

Crystalline, milk|ed still.              Sill.                        Steel.

Comp in

The margins  

Log of names a chasse

What writes itself

A question comes apart

Slows as pour|ed us may

Be back fires burn

Outs in wait for shows:            what

Rises to the surface is

All ways has been            a             has
Been in the interval?