Poems.

Corvus and crater -- Ritual for the measuring expansion -- Prime is not just the number -- Navigation of certain bold species -- Ritual for accounting for the plumb-line -- Future provisioning -- Hours after her name is called -- Designed for initiation -- The rotten handle on the scythe -- She bleak breaks -- In a flat cap and suspenders with his arms crossed -- Sainthood made of isobars -- Innermost architecture -- Charts curled up at the edges -- A box of snapped matches and one burnt nub -- A dissolving language -- The unpredictable solicitude of decomposition -- Ritual to fracture the prescribed lexicon -- In columns like a ledger -- Relic neighborhood -- Beneath the skin dwells a feral energy -- Ritual for washing hands with starlight -- Advice from a rusted pail and candy-wrapper -- Holding a line taut -- Erasing the words as she writes them -- Ritual for summoning the winter circle -- She read it in their eyes -- Ritual for lost landscape -- There is the body and the unbodied -- A vessel without a name -- Maybe the shadows are evidence -- Companion to Castor -- Ritual for setting up the wheeling -- A hand pushing firmly against a chest -- Solitary its completion -- Calendar sangboc -- Stories beneath the stories -- History of defiance -- Most like an erratic -- Ritual for grinding wheat into flour -- Complex correspondences hereby simplified -- Choir hive -- We once believed in binomials -- A hum below the level of hearing -- The elegant lace of persistence -- Call her the littlest hunter-gatherer -- Famous partners for dance lessons -- Ritual for the last bridge home -- The way we recognize each other -- Know how to count the measure -- What she carries in her suitcase -- Perhaps an expression of the common self -- When she pages backward -- Ritual to shackle the greater bear.