HOW TO SAY

Jesse cuts mango

he’s sad the warehouse

has been leveled:

now the snow man can widen

his ice cream parking lot

now cry for my uncle

now eat fruit in bed

yellow from another place

in the morning

the empty plate will laugh

Andrea kisses her dog

like a clock

now write letters 

to the dying –

the family is a house,

a bulletin board, a cupboard

(symphonies, cynicism 

also air and salt and trees)

gestures, gasps

shining leaves

clogging the drain