Evening Will Come: A Monthly Journal of Poetics (Tribute to Tomaž Šalamun—Issue 50, February 2015)

Golden Cypress

I bite and bite the foulard and roll

it up. I breathe

octagonally.

Kipling?

Would Kipling make a marinade

from an elephant?

I dreamed that birches are born from vines

and that all branches are glued

three times.