Trimmed Ferns

They must be trimmed
by the florist.

— each fan has spokes
so sharp, identical

you would think you were
reading the Old Testament

where each prophet sharply speaks,
equally demands the same,

the winnowing of ancient
Gaza, its bouquets.

American Violence

It is wholly in the eyes —
the belief that the destruction
of the body
will soothe hypervisuality.

We teach it to Vietnamese, Iraquis,
North Koreans, Hamas
by the pictures we take
with those old Cannons.

— William Meyer Jr.