My blonde
suburban
mother tries to
fly
in the socialite
newspaper
dumb show
of Bales Drive
under the dry
white sky
land abandoned
by the deer and
the crow:
2.
co-opted by the
claustrophobic
cat
domestica and
slobber-jawed
dog
snapping
cookie kids and
a flock of bat
toting young
hands fondling
a green-tree
frog.
3.
a word-camp
of post war
blood white,
and blue
anger flaring
soul drying
sodium.
Parents cured
broiled
bland by the
great war
smoked in
mushroom
deaths, we find
faults
to ignore