It's a new year in wires we're glad

he tells his mother elevating

the chard halfway in his teeth type

she set aside for cowslips the German

flanks and yellow remark of cities

(chalked where pollinated)

they were a vulgar people or nettles

they weren't he says his mouth full

it was the diet

made them crosswhere

prim and prone to cholera

my son thinks of women all the time

as caught in food

even when collard greens not

chard and my own mother

facing an officer's midriff

lifting out deer ticks