September
There is a star in the sky.
Look at the star.
Don’t take your eyes off the star.
Set.
October
Shining. An aptitude
for spook-noting. Though
nothing may be in
the room, that should not lead
one to believe
that nothing is vacant.
Let your spook
sense shine. Cooperate
with whatever lingers within
the nothing that
isn’t.
November
Leave your coven silently.
Do not explain love
to a cloud of atoms. Recover
only what proves lost.
Write a novel whose protagonist
is named President Stove.
He reclines in a dilapidated grove of oranges.
Your ship is hove-to and needs
your attendance. If no shovel is handy
an arm will do. Never hover
over the “truth”
of anything. See the plover’s brittle
grace? A dove will
never improve your life. Never leave your head
in the oven and never let the devil
remove your shoes.
December
Take an hour
to walk across
the bedroom
of a stranger.
Watch the massive
garment of the river
unravel itself bare.
Erase the letters
of your name
from the Book
of Revelation.
Now know how slowly
one must love you.
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