-Around and through the days of other lives-

1.
In the space of time,

Hart Crane revealed the sweltering rivet-

Catcher then leapt from the stern of the churning

"Orizaba."

2.
During my Plath campaign, "Ariel" strained:

         "Something else

          Hauls me through air –––

          Thighs, hair;

          Flakes from my heels."

3.
It was Emily, who alone
Set her back against the fig
Tree at Amherst peering into her authority.

4.
It came to me one night

While listening to the music of "Blood On The Floor"––

(the title leading me by the scruff of the neck into its nightmare)

To question how it came to pass, that

The fatal hypodermic's delivery through the vein of Andrew Turnage 

Advanced to his brother in a jazzy dissonance.

5.
Call me: name-dropper,

Navigating the stuff in the lives of others

Much of the time from their landscapes in fatal curiosity.

Words quicken their pace when saying

What there is to say through the clicking of keys
While alone in a room.

Ephesians said that Jesus said:

"Let nothing come out of your mouths but that
Which fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who will hear it".

                                                                                      Ephesians 4:29.

As for me,–– I wouldn't go so far as to say such a thing in mixed company
And frankly,
I wouldn't wander so far from the path as did all or any one of them.