Some questions defy
requests for composition
Some questions refine
lesser sown fields
to overstuffed
underbluffed
cliffsides manufactured
by rivers
dwelling as metaphors
deep in the loam
that has been framed and formed
by prior local death
How to become windblown:
one, be in the wind
two, remain in the wind
three, recognize the state of
blown by the wind
Passivity and activity
are not exactly antonyms
Artifice and naturalness
Oberon anomalies
Great ideals reveal
fissures, foreclosures,
farcical exposures
demanding the demeaning
of all that came before
These totalities rhyme
with consequences for
no reason, as every season
can only be seasoned
by the winters and bones
that died spring deaths
within summer dreams
Names names names names
repetition derides the
rider of the unknown horse
Mount only the mountains
whose names are carved into
fountains, whose conquests
must bequest the bear
tusks and antlers
a hippopotamus of a monster
of a Dr. Frankenstein afternoon
Overnight goats refuse to bleat
syllabic bylines for formal journals
they know the way we do not
that salt at altitude
is worth more a lick
of urine
Roman Ryan 