Accidentals

i

These three similar:
the hart’s ‘alien small teeth’
the spaniel’s straight row of front teeth
sperm whale’s rows of great spaced round teeth


ii

On the left, hard like a cliff
& on the right side confused,
in the winter frozen marsh water
& on the left like a cliff.
Nantucket, like Nantucket, is
a sandbar
Muir Woods
declivity, as if you couldn’t
see, but as if you could feel,
sea. Beefsteaks
with the fat on them like marble-
veins in marble, which is like,
which is something like, the waves
over Pollock Rip. Garlic empire
Gilroy.


iii

pressure dispensation                           cash establishment
slight pressure, gum on grain               tooth


iv

Workers!
Of & in the world
take up your beefsteaks, garlic.

Of this world,
the picket line
sudden North California coastline
isn’t that, surf,
like meeting beefsteak’s rind?