Trio No. 22

1. 

Speak

And give air to the thing which lies

Below

Under the veinous floor boards

Creaking

As the cavern fills with blood

2. 

Something about the sails on that particular boat triggered a memory of my uncle when I was small sitting at the dining room table under the stained-glass lamp that gave dim light to the family and it was the way he sat up straight and maybe he was somehow shaped like those sails or colored like those sails or empty and floating sad like those sails. 

3. 

A list of objects and compound objects:

A key. 

A watch. 

A wallet. 

A fox. 

A plate of fruit. 

A handful of foreign currency 

Two toothpicks. 

A fast car. 

A rope, one end tied to a pier, the other end frayed and floating. 

A wig. 

A fig tree. 

A fog. 

A log. 

A log.