Contradictory concrete spars
with flexible aluminum cars
end rhyming with conviction
the stricture of structure
Coring four lines
for stored value
where cyanide concentrates
in certain apples
Unpredictable reds
carve a little green
down the roads whose codes
are written down without text
Next to trunks carried by bark
to the next intersection
an international dateline
whose four corners
Indicate complex corncob pipefitting
leaden as the recently dead
hat-lining as the flat tines
poke a few more holes
Where the undignified warehouses
become the grouses
the resentments
whose bitter foretastes
After-shadow the sweet smell
of burnt-sick heart
Roman Ryan 