Dispellations: Curated Ephemera


Take it wide

and take it within:

Praise every break in the din:

Praise the sea bean on my mantle,

smooth emblem of personal disaster. Praise the stones

from other coasts:

granite, marble, white & sand.



Praise the candleholder cut

from the drupe

of gray-plum fruit.

Praise the loops of the

unknown hand.


Praise the lamp & the whelk, the round

mirror of my hour,

the blue whine of my Timex clock.

Praise the simulacra of a woman diving

in. Praise the shadow of a swallow

from last year’s

midsummer festival.

Praise the swallow’s exeunt left.