QUARTET

Faith Shields
University of British Columbia

Advent

The baroque the minimalist of days of roses, light. Smoke on aluminum
maroon signature foaming. Malicious for pleasure. Castigate, lamb, lane,
servant. Hump the green robed woman. She walks dark valleys, shadows,
cedar, death. Fogged, fucked, fantastic, slate clean. Delivered. Clenches, mutters, "Pardon."

Adjutant

Tweedledum, tweedledee, factor and accessory. Let yer light pine,under
a bushel for a barrel, a rack and a randy deevine. Crash to the barrens.
Crystallized. Pinked. Oystered and Twinked. A merman's telescoping
curiouser and hookum. Lawlets. Monklets. Desire fingered away. Green
boards startled. Ladled. Lit.

Supinant

Dearest heenous greenous sea, mercysun magnificent. Marguerite
remembers. Conveniently. Redundantly. The bottle talk, the curtained
streets, a sensate, monocled forest, queer conversation. Living set,
heavy, greying in the sog, vanishing into an apt symbol. Stuck.

Monument

Glass cherries in a granite bowl, on silver. Knee-highs, limbs rosy with cold.
Delight. Young boys scratch. In expectation. Her wrinkles invisible in the
soft closeness of evening, breath. Fermenting thighs, overripe, abandoned fertility
and the circle jerks. Squandered, floundering, the stones of a thousand princes.
Petrified here.