quartet

1.
jailbreak          ale
mistake running upwards
         ultimate jungle in
electromagnetic coil
conjugular vacuum          doom
         in her curveship thy acetylene

he who is free to go
malingering          stays

2.
looser older         drunk doesn't care
the gaps gash
         conspiring to kill
foreigners on street corners
with their         violins
"
brigid eats bird
shit for breakfast
and she enjoys
it very
much
"
in a field of puffballs caught
         his breath
bird calls reverberating
under a sky clouded deaf
echo chamber
mother          who called my name
        who's left
In front of the croissant place
the small shy dog with a blinded white
        eye         sniffs

3.
raining slivers          I was going to say
        in the veins         of a leaf
so much fur          the barbecue smokes the
after noon comes evening
      & rattling
      I come into your room
fishbone scratches        the cat's annoyed
        okay . fine . however
                 I don't              m i n d
                                                         the inside

4.
... morning ...
                 there are birds
but the news is you
saying " ... morning ... "
in a kind of     south-of-
                 northerly direction
a moment          lost
         clearly busted
the compass is
tossed