Christopher Mulrooney
the kind words never spoken were
as things he said in his depositary speech
not as things again so much as rings
on a merry-go-round of love
not rings a merry-go-round and love
but clings a fairy hoedown and shove
off along the fairground mountebanks
not fairground not mountebanks
but greyhound and bouncy shanks
around and around the mechanical rabbit
pursuing
kerblooing
Christopher Mulrooney has written poems and translations in "Los Angeles Journal," "Poetic Diversity," "Clara Venus," "The Landing," "The Drunken Boat," and "Color Wheel," criticism in "Parameter," "The Film Journal," and "Pyramid," and a volume of poetry called "notebook and sheaves" (AmErica House, 2002).
any assortment of figures
is possibly good you figure
at a glance Y figures K equals
X equals O (trestle configuration)
if you have anywheres at hand
purposefully marshaling all your chiefs
to the full record
all along the Niger with a parasol
of stained glass and a mezzanine
paint a box of watercolors as for
instance gratuitous the scene
of young ladies preparing to ply
the aesthetic arts in a drawing room
the skillful conversations come later
the builders builded
