Guarded multiplicity and an orange peeled
as one whole outside rind; climb and banishment;
nihil or blades, double-edged, of glass; ask not
answer hot, it's a stuttering holding back that
admits no comma, no square red remote button;
more phrases pale before logical irony, steeling
the stealer for another crime, another pun,
another mishmash sandwich; grains sanded
paper to round out the spinal book, a bent-
over enigma with no key, no solution; clarify
but err, that's the natural way, the evil in the
dichotomy, the rectangular area turned into
barbed wire and olive mush.
Roman Ryan 