An ecclesia of wings
enters ear
and net

Trojan or worm

replicates
deadlock by

a bit rot glitch
of a software
gland

in a handle leak--

Heisenbug,
Bohrbug,
Mandlebug,
Schroedinbug,

fandangos on the core
before a patch
signals to the cargo
cult

leaving
just a blank.

     for Charles Black

Spanish hillocks skew
paleonymies of parvis, hold rocks
up to olive trees, savage grass
to Ponce's sky, for Visigothic
shields streak down the valley

with a lance, shaking, striking.
The Pyrenees crack. Bathers
float on swells of provenience.
Horned fish ruined by blood,
frighten horses, under
soaking suns.

A Manichean
doll's hat

subpoena's
septic shades

of batteries
in an alchemy
of arms--

scaffolds
and drill bits
in a law
of rotted
poxy.

Foxglove
turns conifer to tuft, collides
in crisis, whiten banks
of blackface to dull
the chalky fog.

Rhubarb
and ponderosa cavort
with earwigs.

Locust
is overlord, fights
the wetland, its hydric
soil owing nothing
to words.