A Member Of a Family Leaves Home (The Hero Is Introduced), by Zach Buscher

Decalcomania gets the first word.

Skylight peppered with paper mandalas.

Sky for shooting skeet or shoeing horses.

Light projecting ugly yonder barn.

Hero takes stock, slice of windowsill pie

cooling cloud-level ‘top the rusty slats:

owls                                                      bats                        

             skim-calves                                                                                   (ducks)

                              chicks w/ dicks                                           “scum pond”

     piggy                                                     rabbi

cats

rats

worms, worms, worms

Periplus gone to rue.

My kingdom for

A. Hero laps what seen.  Loves.  Sticks farm another spell.

B. Hero out.

But

But

But Hero’s stupid indecisive.  Couldn’t pick

his sign out the sidereal lineup, let alone to be

or not adventure us.  Removed from questions of

audience, wax edging the cotton swabbed decks,

Hero proves anally fruity.  Pushes the needle 

to a vein of 7-inch vinyl.  It’s A Greek Chorus Line

and it feels, more or less, like Christmas.