My one & only "language poem", of several yrs back:

For the Ones Who Dig

 
Mr. Tiscione's body was buried in Guatemala.  
The Embassy's version of the circumstances of his 
death was based on a report prepared by the Guatemalan 
police, characterized by State Department officials as 
"well-trained and professional."
     – NY Times

  
         He was carrying shards in his hands,
 alluvial deposit, amygdaloidal,
  and may have stumbled on fugitive
 constituent, digging,
 digging gala beds, chatter-
  marks.  August 22.
 No passage home.  Erratic block.
 You must be brave.
  He was
 in the tub.  Idiomorphic,
 honeycomb weathered, blood
  cleavage fan drawn
 from host rock.  Mandrakes
 gather.  Demonstration.  Ghost
  stratigraphy.  Your
 husband is already dead.
 No flagstone, hard evidence.
  A machete?
 Combination of antidepressants,
 lithium, blue mud, gneiss.  Logan
  stone in the saddle.
 There are
 avocadoes
  in Aguacatan.
 6 ft 2, thick glasses, hair
 graying, foliated
  limnic deposits,
 quaquaversal.  He was transporting
 Mayan pots to museum
  in Guatemala City.
 Prominent families, clay
 left in their care.  Shrinking
  earth, paraconformity,
 ripple mark, recumbent
 fold, raindrop impression,
  reaction rim.
 May have stumbled upon
 worm's eye map, unconformity
  window, wrench
 fault till matrix marine
 transgression.
  These people
 have really suffered.  I'll
 tell you more about it when I
  get home.
 Suspected threat somehow
 connected with work.  Superimposed
  drainage, swallow
 pit, tectonic culmination,
 terminal curvature.
  Todstein.
 She tried to reassure...called
 at the appointed hour.  So
  sorry, your husband –
 gone to government office.
 Requested two maps.
  She didn't have
 the four thousand dollars...
 to bring him home.
  Blank
 embassy.  Shark
 teeth.
  Sorry,
 sorry.  Slaggy,
 slickenside, soil
  profile,
 spillway, solution pipe,
 sole-mark, shatter belt,
  selvedge.
 Hornblende.
 Pitch.
  Rose
 diagrams show distribution
 of flute cast directions.
  Pebble.
 Mantle.  Natural arch.
 Life assemblage.
  Problematicum.
 Posthumous pumice,
 rock froth.
  Paper-
 shale, plutonic
 plexus, outwash fan,
 passage beds,
 parallel roads,
 river terrace, quarry
  water.
 Obsidian.
 Oolith.
  Ooze.  Red
 clay (on the seafloor).
 Rottenstone (for polishing
  metal).

 Peter Tiscione.  Bernice.
 Amanda.  Constellated.  Pietra
  serena.  Pietra
 dura.