abatis 4 : scrutinize

weekly   forum   told that

   it    bangs down

into   the sludge     mining

              dealing w.   handled    air

not   only the fair kind

but busted into         long   as gun sights

x-ray  fumble a life   managed

jerry  built to the krauted xeno

            a copy  gets moved

into the singing file—

over   the underhanded   

self  -       builders

              even   the thought     is   blasted

umpteen   sonic parallels

       bloom timing

figure wait is turned on its side

                  suggesting      bad infinity

national troll  hasten

              eden  with  voiceprints

intro lives     have foliage

               not   only the fair kind

a degree of songs       underconstructed

       sentimental   crawl

abatis 2 : stronghold

in that place

fraternity boys

were ghostly like saints

                        you try

to think your cliché

       snap & snuffle

            of a printing-

                            press

             lean

against it        affectionately

                 moldy

a temperate summer

     song

ezra pound in the i-hop

              so,   i’m

learning confusion

abatis 3 : sham hearsay (as for listening); a threadbare flunky

something more than the craven click

typesetter in correction

or traveling      gong round a wold

scholar convincing to arrive

the eye gets paid with waking in a dim lighting, or

time maybe to type-in an abyss

words get at a lack with a scream ice:

cave a lot, emptor   as

genuine moments of demotic repartee

in summer          faint like mothlight

so, (demean w. tactful apology

            thru w. a rapier player folk suburbs

they threatened w good learning !

the manic pinchpenny

don’t get stuck:  

purpose of malice         all the way

to fingers end

abatis 1 : ditty for

slow at the mud city prosper hanging gardening

walking i realize is that line of attack

and the mention

of it

offensive—

            so i in the crimson mention

speech,                  as

another figure

&,  feathery

things become average

imply in the alleyway

all souls sold trolls

gear slipping in a number

flake hone wave  he’s     “of the same mind”

a mind    ground down by simper

a boom

and then you,

& then grass

& then oversupply