This is probably as close as I’ll ever come to art.

Twelve Billion

I must hold on to
glad to be home

Returning.

now,
let go of the wood

to the thunderclouds
we’re under,
always apart

to omission.

to new meanings
to the feeling I’ve only been able to find
on one short strip
just East of Kansas City
that I am small in a
dirty daunting

to coverage of
the Be Beat

to frontiers of periphery
and the Knowns we never see
the wicker bowler atop the landscaper
who’s trimmed every week,
the yard across the street
which I’ve canvased in every imaginable state
which’s
since Mrs. Tanzay’s first grade,
Remained.

to Inherently Exhaustible Knowledge