John Myers
from Mudship

1. We go for a walk


2. A process that goes on in secret is lavish


3. The outside air because the sprinklers were on is fragrant


4. Our schedule is open and pretty


5. And what people are doing would appear to be purely intuitive


6. Our bowels are like jelly


7. We kiss our Bills goodbye


8. We just want to confirm that this is you


9. This is us saying goodbye


10. Call us Cash


11. The outside is still fragrant


12. It was peaches and the one feature we would not be caught without is bell choir


13. It is important for us to let others enjoy the things they enjoy


14. We cough


15. When the bell is rung, profit


16. We thought at first it was a spanking


17. Everyone else is leaving, none of them having bought our knives


18. Coughing follows the olive course


19. And a little brown rabbit hops into our path


20. We cannot sew, prescribe, or model


21. Our scientists study belonging


22. We do not have watches


23. We seek someone to touch nouns with


24. Our scientists study pace, acceleration, and the effects of vinegar


25. We had to bode, when we heard the bell, well


26. Moths in the almonds, moths in the beans


27. We see, we know, silverfish, minnows, puppies, gnats, mice, and the moths


28. Worriedly


29. The privacy of action


30. We roll kites for the arousal


31. We campaign


32. We bristle at the word relationship


33. A sheep bleats, throws off our wrist


34. We imagine unfurling


35. It was the first time Bill honked his horn at us he began multiplying


36. We need to be by ourselves


37. A building rusts in the sun


38. We doubt our sexual prowess but want to enjoy ourselves


39. Our game is to wait


40. What we tell one another forms a lip


41. There were no birds on our list


42. Serving spoons and poppies through a display window at the dry goods store


43. What if the line’s left running like a faucet


44. We see the special exhibition in the toy store, jingle bells thick and bright as a drake


45. We are just glad to be here


46. Are we to be recognized by our surroundings?


47. Alcohol hands off soft shapes


48. We excuse ourselves


49. Stuff rosemary in our noses


50. Whenever our overtures are misunderstood, we hesitate


51. It’s been a very good day for us


52. We want these candles to reflect the sore lights in our eyes


53. Like solder, we will only run when enough heat is applied


54. We were caught rummaging through the trunks of your cars for snail shells


55. Were we wrong to look there?


56. Were we wrong?


57. We know things that feel incredible are also part chance


58. We count them, daylight being what it is


59. People need to wait, no matter how young


60. We look for delicate flowers that bloom themselves through stems through seed through hard sand or clay


61. We can’t stand a full moon


62. The wind was low so we took off our gloves


63. A mourning dove makes her nest


64. In the dry goods store a boy sits on the counter with a book, shoelaces dangling


65. After anxiety, it takes a few days to describe our relief


66. Are there such things as unsuccessful pleasures?


67. We need to feel like we are part enough of the community


68. Comes a muskrat up to the surface of the pond to breathe


69. We were taught both to sleep on the plane and to be liars


70. The surface of the pond changes color, pale to fuscous and back with the passing of a cloud


71. We pretend, often, to be strangers on separate errands


72. Our favorite technique for consensus is rhymes


73. We wash our paper money out in the sink


74. Peaches bob the pond the day after the hurricane


75. We break another tree


76. Don’t tell us how happy


77. How to eat enough salt to live


78. Sometimes we fall into the ivy


79. We saw you kneeling by the shotgun through the back window


80. We understate


81. We keep putting ourselves back on the roster


82. This is our Italian cypress


83. We need the sun to take us along with it wherever it goes as we are its kittens


84. Whenever possible stay within sight of water during times of stress


85. Those exposed elbows don’t belong to us


86. A new sensation crowds that one out as when a picnic is over


87. To keep our bodies as vacant as possible and as like springboards


88. We prefer being driven around by our Bills


89. We compare ourselves to the rain


90. There is no such thing as error


91. We must always stretch to stay stretched


92. We hid our eyes less this year, our knees more


93. Recommended enemas


94. Our noses feel sore


95. Though we marched in the Parade of Pears we were listless


96. And here is our eucalyptus


97. Kit: powder, pollen, cake and yellow flowers


98. We spend whole days cultivating proximity


99. A nice, cordial goodbye, or anything in the right context


100. It is widely reported that our dog ran away


101. A bright June day


102. Is it a toy or a decoration?


103. We enjoy those who burrow


104. We wouldn’t pretend astonishment


105. We wrote to win your trust


106. Decidedly looked to the win


107. We toast to our decision to leave


108. Exposure and frequent licking


109. The past has a way of unraveling


110. We check the weather against our plan


111. Kit: sand, flower petals, daubs of mud


112. Our generous senses of fear make us ideal in comforting the sensitive


113. A statue creams the light


114. Among other things


115. We decide to look to the wind


116. We scrape the loop off in the gravel and are admonished by the housekeepers


117. We split our time between seeking permission and purchasing reusable shopping bags


118. The crowns for all the grasshoppers gleam


119. We ache for other evidence


120. Kit: ink in the foyer, cabbage in the skin, trembling


121. The carrot soup we were accustomed to ran out


122. We distract from our plan with bright kites and flags


123. We ache, ache, desire


124. You don’t need to convince those who already know how auspicious your presence is


125. Us stuffing gold in the store’s maslin kettles


126. The first time we left we told none of our Bills


127. We look younger


128. We were more lonesome the less our jackets matched


129. A few of us threaten not to be ourselves


130. We bake meringues and set them on all available half-windows


131. We’ve come to be cared for