Regretless as a Raincoat

Look! do you see these words

Inside me loosely turning

These enormous

Flies I call my blood

Do you see these unzipped trousers

I call American persuasion

Whenever I stand here

Tiresomely shirtless at the swollen

River so dangerously supple this time of year

So soft-muscled 
That three coal-barges

Hit the bridge and they go down

Zip zip zip just like that without

Your lips

So much as parting briefly now and

Have your eyes always been too blue for autumn

Have your hands always been as careless

As these leaves

Exiled on the water

Look! do you see how this gray light

Lulls the sky

Do you see the drowned man

Seek the earth

Set in your clay pot