I STILL WANT THE CHEESCAKE


All over my back lawn, settlers

People kissing backpacks

In my bathroom, a new secretary

(I'll take over now, Cameron, thank you)

And this lovely childhood full of birds

Threading ripe intestines through the loopholes of destiny . . .

CAT FOR SALE--WILL CONSIDER TRADE

It's a rather flat bed of water

Death with its silencer, the way God used to be enough of a cocktail

What I hate most are the red cups
And the way they commiserate with the flocks of dandelions
Like spring spilling out of a colostomy bag

The antlers broken in piles and falling off the pellucid paddy wagon

Hamlet's running away with his brain-stem half gone

The rest of the habitat's not quite at piece in this
___non-documentable country

THE “DIES YOUNG” OASIS

Is not the answer I was looking for. Next wonder.
Dreamscape tool and die, plush living standards. Now I
Will ask you to take off your party gown and cover
The trees. They’ve been wanting your breath so bad.
I walked here from Milwaukee.
On the seventeenth day
I came to listen and found—you’d been there—this
Fountain with its tentacles of lightning and the
Arbitrary Anglican church services amongst the white rocks
___and palm trees.
I felt lightheaded. I took the white blood—I like such
___categories—
Inside a capsule and felt like I was glowing
With God’s DNA. Sky-cloudless. Next town
Over the windows open and the windows shut.
The daughters are sleepy and the strawberry soda remains
Untouched on the bedside tables—columns of shooting stars.
And I can tell by the way you are open and dry,
The smell of kicked weather and pine bark on you, split ice
Steaming on the gravel road, that this is the time for consumption.

artbook pages

Henrietta and Lucia

Lucia (she's not as fat as she looks, but she IS a little fat--

she doesn't care though).

Henrietta

NOTE

New poems are forthcoming in Blackbird and Salamander.
As pictured below, The Other Life: The Selected Poems of
Herbert Scott, which I edited and wrote a foreword for, is a
book now. A box landed on my porch with 25 copies in it.
Carnegie Mellon published it. It hasn't appeared on Amazon.com
yet, but should soon. I'll sell copies for a reasonable price.

UNIVERSITY POLICY


I know--I checked. Are you simply stupid?
There is an urgency. The fish goes back to the rocks
and covers them while a memory appears on the kitchen wall.

It's raining on the inland lake.

Thank God--some snow is leftover, as well as what's coming.

So many springtimes. So many powerpoints.

Everything really is safe now.

Cellos. Cellos. Cellos.

THE EARTH-TONE MADONNA

___(an Ashbery Erasure poem)


What were you
telling about veins

implanted in everyone

forever

like meat
one could run around on?

There were peepers in the chaos
and not much else.

And if it's Wednesday?

The egrets snowplow
our workshoes.

Herb Scott's book is out. I've got copies.

KILLER OF SHEEP


Charles Brunett's film, Killer of Sheep, is necessary viewing.

Here's the detailed stuff.

FIN

Student--person--financial agreement
A loan to pay for the many public bodies
31 drug inhibitor(s)
Finch-backed passerine
Supply themselves with shoemaker resources (that son is
___a cigarette)
Male baldness in the old Church mode
Ground coffee allows food for the virus
The workmen supply it themselves
Webfooted____capable of being filtered
His and Her are part of the one
At the apparatus for purifying dung by cheating people
Ebola is a growing disease
Ebola is a growing disease
Morally obscene

QUILL PEN

Something keen, an undergraduate
A doubter inflammable
Torture formed by people and suspicion
To be stimulated and consumed, pregnant without delay
A person who has not yet had a calf
A young cow that goes on a quest
Hasty of living, composed of a hedge
Hurried that's intercourse that's one thing to do
Dative Ablative
A golden-green Central American part of a judge
See--"Out of the question"
Swallows up anyone who walks on that gun
The freezing of food is a natural prompt to receive in and learn
The tenderest and deepest of feelings

WOEBEGONE


Someone sees a genuineness of unequal powers
Dyed in the blue Walkover; a carpet shark
A man to make or become, dry as a cuckold
Within a hair's breadth of death
Not behaving in the out of doors
The chief who first discriminated
Between shoulder blades
(Old variant of War Office)
To take for a wife a green woodpecker
That facilitates a particular thin, shrivelled
Aboriginal use for the flexible binding
The mind is at home in the inner heart
Society, an unsteady anger that wobbles
The osier for any willow--imprisoned without smiling

NO HEATHER (H)


That which excites, or its period, esp in the
Having been made hot, someone easy
A person who is required to change to liquid
(The refrigerator principle)
As much as one wishes OPENLY
To show a person of the opposite
Ground a common low-growing mechanical chafing dish
The male
Who is not a Christian
Or a Jew_____(idiom that creates a heathen)
Nerve-ends pass from one mole of
Extinct American bird related to the prairie chicken
A massive helmet of fabric traditionally brewed in
To become and outlaw____A goat____An uncivilized artist

"I ZIMBRA" (Z)


The fresh species, a naturally occurring
Holder for a hot shellfish stew
Whose duty is
The convent
Or that of the mother superior
A street crossing where Buddhism has priority
Down each side of the mouth
Whose dainty
Is humped and domestic
An electronic device for killing (the bonnet monkey)
And the stamping of heels
The twenty-sixth letter of the English alphabet shaped like a metal
Inmate of a prison or a labor camp
Whose dirty is to keep watch with fervor, or cause

A GLASS OF MERLOT (V)


Volition is a form of Spanish money
A velvety shoe made of rawhide
(back)______(back)______(back)
A soft palate of consonants
Rubbing with the hand in the manner of some aerial roots
Sacramental veils conceal the bride
(A nun) payable to : the fourth stomach of a calf
The law is greater than
A sickle-like claw on the printed : Hind Foot
Streaked, variegated
One of the horny (forested or unforested) weathercocks
A humeral act____Medium used to launch spacecraft
Deep soft wasp of the family
People perform

JOUISANCE


Someone jots down a brief note:
A collar attached to a post
The jaw, the cheek, the pendulous wattle
Or a nominative head____(Modern forms add
To this confusion)
The motion of objects consists of a pad with buttons on it
Bad television
A magazine who manages to keep a dialect going
The act of traveling from one god to
James Joyce writing on addictive drugs
A long loose outer garment worn by
Difficult to make out
Newton moves the duck to a chiefly urban Australia
___shortening (controlling)
A misreading of the completed planet

WILD SHEEP (U)


Making tea or coffee in an urn-shaped object
A strong desire to secrete a kidney
In a room or a building
The oracle (poetic) is producing
What's present in blood is
The Roman Station on the site of Wroxeter in Shropshire
The scientific study of
An artificial opening
Obtained from the "thermoset present"
A duct that conveys plastic to the adhesive bladder
(Anat and zool)
People use this method
Constructed through skin or organ(s) denoting
The condition abnormal in toads (and in frogs)

CHANGE OF PLAN (R)



An opening is made collected
As rent a car
Who owns the consolidated debt
Is one attractive reporter
The resume relates to itself (it's a security issue)
Annual income under self-denial of law
Repent--a substance often used (crosswise)
Again and again
It repeats like a clock
To pay back a loan oneself like a
Double-stranded library business, or orphan.
The student enrolled (repent!) in a radio
Firearm having designed a candidate (who failed)
To go back to one indefinitely
(As in rowing) in which first round losers (say it again!)
___appear crosswise

"HAPPY HUNTING, KEMOSABE" (K)


The women keep kennels, various of dingo;
Their muzzle-loading, chiefly pig iron
Issue of astronomer processes.
His father was also of Europe, a substitute for
Coffee. A perceptible but small
As Swan-Road is akin to
Salvation through Jesus Christ
A penetrating and poisonous organic falcon
An outdoor festival of catsup
His ocean was on the wrong side of the
Saw-cutting torch
Overgrowth of the ballast as a chemical basis for
charitable purposes____This one contains some
(As a solvent for reddish-brown falcons) bad stereotypes

CREW NECK (O)


Shakespeare's not the same, directed in manner
Diseased people of southern Michigan
WABA YO--a good but slow water dog
Our Father, by incorrect portion
Causative and external, or flightless unseen (the norm)
One who attempts (see MONEY table)
Intellectual danger of the inner ear
An American mint
Devoted (you'll be sorry) of flimsy face
Present reality is DIFFERENT
Ought not use a dungeon overstuffed with footstool
Any several rhyme-eating school boys
Held one hand that remains as a mouthlike
Family used as part of a trial
_______________to exclude
_______________from a group
_______________husband of Desdemona
_______________A buckle
_______________Or brooch
_______________Glossed over
_______________Or handled