angel

the angel,
the cloud,
contingency, conceit:

old blood on a
restless
man palm

an adult in this
against my skin
by thousands on the same…

nothing left but
street gospel intellectual mystical survival modes,

pleasure for the eye,
smoke, with its
wilderness blood

looking around for me
beneath red gloomy
supermarket aisles

in a house of music

seed text: Postmodern American Poetry, A Norton Anthology