Something odd & green & quietudinous for St. P Day (from July):

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 Lifted   in crossweft timewarp
 from a flowing delta’s   fan
 of phenomena   the nef
 left behind the perimeter

  
 (centripedalling   kenosic canoah
 hen-brewed   where bees dance
 above closed lips)   ascends
 into Enrico’s rich F-rica

  
 a sharp clft promontory near
 victorious falls   the iron
 bells’ aye ripples rings
 there   and the rain

  
 glints   on lfbld
 splld   like rndrp
 on lfbld of prrie
 grs   enflded

  
 lf within lf
 shrp swrd
 grnswrd
 flld

  
 now with
 bhved kbzzzz
 of hzzzzryl bskts
 of   hneed   wshprrd

  
 hmmng   and ksszzs
 where the alfabt iz effybt
 O’hnd mmmmm   (bllft
 for the klsn   of the csqd shp)

  
 and the shp baaaa
 and the b   shbaaa
 nd the shp (a bshfl
 shmrk offrd Abrm)

  
 flts like a spr   slwly
 into the crcle of
 the jwlled crcle
 where a flt whstls

  
 to the pt   the fxtpt
 of the lv-lw
 rvld unrvld
 crsrd  prfct

  
 now nt Mmmn bt
 a pnny fr hr nme?

  
 The shrp shprd’s prvn
 prw of the shp anchrd
 now   a rs rsn for shrn
 the Chrn crst frvrlstn

  
 and trn the jls shl
 of Jls to flcy ltshp

  
 lightly   armor to feathers goes
 from Julius to   lucky July
 in the twirl   of elegiac
 shamrock   Sophie

  
 overshadowing the ark
 overshadowing the crown
 overshadowing the crowd
 and lifted  so carefully

  
 into the bkwrd mrk
 with a shshshmm
 goes the shmrk
 like tny crmb

  
 vmrmrs
 immrhd
 inmyrrn
 myrrrsd
 
 a figurehead   curled
 sharp prow back
 efjlgqed
 like

 
 grn
 grs of
 grcefl
 flft   ngr

  
 now  upstream
 qrnd   Qn or pn
 pt of spd   a Qn
 of mstrd   time

  
 mstrld now
 in a ryl flsh
 of blJ kfshr
 Jbl ay  won


    
           2.21.2000