ACCOUNTS
Affection says: sometimes
you make the meal
for the bowl. The store closed
We liked the shape
of the awning
and scenes of hell—
some of the scenes of hell—
by Blake. What to sell?
Even the teller couldn’t say
CRUNCH TIME
You know what time it is,
and which sunset,
and are demonstrably chapped
by clichés (can we say
this?) and clichés—
the sum—
of which…
and what
it is to want to wish,
and have gone ahead
PUSH COMES TO SHOVE
Narcissus
was pushed from behind
There was too much float
not enough sinker
Narcissus pushed someone from behind—
he was doing the pushing
He saw himself doing the pushing,
then turning as he fell then felt
the weight at the end of the line
UNIVERSAL AMSTERDAM
What shall we call
the boat downstream
at anchor, nose
and the boat
approaching so slowly
I
and the other boats
behind the boats downstream…
John Craun lives a few blocks from the Mississippi River in New Orleans, Louisiana.