His: the tree that won’t shoulder the noose
His: Celan cusped in the precipice’s phalange
His: a herbarium pickled in scum and flu
His: a couture of surgical gowns
His: black plague Barcelona
The limbs of postlude; the limbs of Japanese
honeysuckle. His: viral nurseries. Taproots
flattened to carcasses of bamboo beetles
His: the shaved head of an Indian moonstone
His: the empty fist of a Faberge egg
His: the knuckle that knots disease with desire