The pair of glasses he is wearing is not a pair of glasses.

It is a pair of tennis shoes playing a pair of glasses.

Those gold chains around his neck are not gold chains.

They are over-the-hill porn stars portraying gold chains.

That is not a shirt, buttons open. That is not a bare chest.

The shirt is an umbrella, heavily made-up. The bare chest is a knee,

heavily made-up. The buttons are a zipper, heavily made-up.

That is not Al Pacino’s mouth forming the letter W.

That is a hand playing the role of his mouth. And that

is not the letter W. That is a stunt letter M standing on its head.

A hawk with a broken wing is a hawk broken.

A broken bird.

It gives up the sky for a perch perpetual.

It forgets feathers but remembers what talons are for.

A branch chewed half through by claws is its prey.

A broken hawk hops from low to lower.

A broken hawk jumps from lower to low.

A broken hawk has a broken eye also.

It has a short sky that does not require a hawk’s unbroken eye.

A canopy with no view of the sky is their kindest kindness.

is white

is pure white

is pure dominant, pure tonic

is white

is snow, is ice

is a glacier glissando

is white

is a swan

is a swan with a straight-as-an-arrow neck

is white

is lily white

is a lily pressed and dried in a book

is white

is white whale white

is Ahab caught in the web of strings

is white

is white hot

is dead white, dead-center white

is white

is bridal gown white

is the bride of rock and roll

is white

is ghost white

is the ghost of a blue guitar