invisible birthday

this year is a mechanical year

what powers this year iseconomically difficult

I dreamed of a swan that becamea cloud

the cloud was a shipwreck thattasted familiar

o flashlights sweeping acrossthe brush!

the things that never find me

come up again,            onetwo three

forgotten sundays

invisible rainbow

one hungry lion (blind)

a magic dog

a very soft sheep (wool)

a bear with a bib

two frogs (love)

a long-necked giraffe (blind)

a blue-eyed ram

of being lazy and not taking thetime to understand

the pleasure of seeing itsreflection

it can go through anything, evenour school roof

ensuring that all surfaces arerinsed

invisible meaning not impossible

a touch meaning a primarycontact (color)

an up and down, an up and up

wayward, which way, fast, untrue

day of unkind farewell

bright sexual something

to deserve and desert, o

            comeupon

            andagain in a

       foamy summer this

magnetic feeling

this maximum sheen

a robotic endurance!

bird says too

     specific these mnemonics

a hungry stream

            makesup sunday

     an asphalt tint cries 

rain

invisible cloud

a figurative height

hidden by “veils”    (the moon

and what I want to understand

makes no mention of   cannot speak for

solar striation   as many fibers in the brain

to wander the face of,      never torn

a summer more like a song

this way! this way!

o skeet shot, o buck.

o laughing penguin cloud!

tremolo airglow, mint stringchip

wink termite

            thislycra desire, manly man

my dorothea

           mycharm.

            (forDorothea Lasky)