The Superior Remote Consolidator
you’re floating naked utterly stripped
of button clutter you are the remote
controlling everything programming everything
the shifty seasons
everybody’s Aunt Edith you know Empress of the Napkin Rings
Ruler of How High Water May Be Poured
inside her cut glass goblets
you read parameters
say of the summer’s puckered drought
collapse days to minutes or
if it’s hot fudge over ice cream roll it on your tongue for hours
it won’t melt
you the Consolidator reset your parameters
point the remote across the ocean
to Mohammed and Isaac look! they’re talking talking
now turn to page 28
Page 28
The Circulation-Enhancing Travel Socks
will get you where you really want to be:
under ponderosas breathing piney breaths
over there bees throb
you a gem-like damsel
float with the dragonflies on Lily Lake flashing
your iridescent belly flicking
your impossibly thin needle-legs
skating into summer
of button clutter you are the remote
controlling everything programming everything
the shifty seasons
everybody’s Aunt Edith you know Empress of the Napkin Rings
Ruler of How High Water May Be Poured
inside her cut glass goblets
you read parameters
say of the summer’s puckered drought
collapse days to minutes or
if it’s hot fudge over ice cream roll it on your tongue for hours
it won’t melt
you the Consolidator reset your parameters
point the remote across the ocean
to Mohammed and Isaac look! they’re talking talking
now turn to page 28
Page 28
The Circulation-Enhancing Travel Socks
will get you where you really want to be:
under ponderosas breathing piney breaths
over there bees throb
you a gem-like damsel
float with the dragonflies on Lily Lake flashing
your iridescent belly flicking
your impossibly thin needle-legs
skating into summer
©2008 Judith Pacht
