tyrian, up and out

2.

a man sets himself aflame

camera catches but can’t convey

3.

red phallus of tulip and

open labium

4.

a cascade of screams

outside the courthouse

5.

the skin pulls back

on the white head of magnolia

6.

cold where the trial is

cold and rich with scorn

7.

honey bead

in jonquil’s lacey box

8.

reporter on location frantic

to describe the smell of a man burning

9.

yellow smoke of spring

forsythia only partly

10.

shielding a window where

some boys undress

11.

Oregon grape, its tight

nuts starting to blue

12.

as armored cops

gas students who

13.

are too pissed to put on

crowns of blooms

14.

is it music, music

behind the wall or

15.

the fabled fire come

to bless the seeds

16.

or mowers, whirring blades

to enact the sentence