Trifecta
A wager in horse racing requiring correct choice
of first, second, and third place
in exact order
to win.
~The New American Webster Handy Collegiate Dictionary

1

specify
	specify
		specify
as if we are one
trapped in a cube of amber
(but I am)

rhyming is easy
	when you and shoe,
	though blue, arrive unglued
	and renew through that
	cherry tree, cheeky truths
and I like it when your words
pu 	r	su	e
those perceptions skew
and you, you tantalize me 
on cue, with simple flickers
of insight, these red ripe
nights of sunset and grown wonder
but really, 	specify

live in this classification
or swallow
hard
then
get the fuck up
shouting.


2

frailty in fineness
unwind this
notion of sperate
know that one
is just the sum
of you and none
and God
is that eternal circle 
in your palm
because it does involve
evolving,
external

“sentences rich in intent”*
drift until the current lifts
your torrent of rain
baptism? Immerse me, terse lips
and all?
No.
Not today.
Too much change to chance
relapse

unleash
your 
vision
from 
single
nature
you have
edges and plains and valleys
locked up 
in that small white face
don’t come here
don’t come at me
complacent.

*gift of gab


3

the holy ghost
won the bronze
but couldn’t be here
tonight
on behalf of 
that still small voice
I’ll accept the prize
I’ve done it twice

the new j-man
(why you gotta fit
all criteria???)
regaling me
from the backseat

making window eye
contact
3-2-1

1 and 2
true, 3 unhappy
not having 4
to follow tall

who said 
it is
supposed to
make sense?

Tonight
“use your vision
don’t use your eyes”**

**Joyo Velare

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