Jon Conley

Tropopause

mammoth
mooth of gray
man’s mouthing
moot, his tomb
of sky sheds

shed in
herself laying
layers of rain-pale
failures, comeuppances
& pails upon the opening till
till ill we shall see
illness in see
-ing the
seen

un-

broken seam
sow-seeming
weather / what
the ocean teems
steams & stemming
ever, evaporate, even, examine,
sublimate, transpirate
regardless of who
wears whims
in the
O

calculate how human is
condescension / convalescence
open wide a mouth
birth an
ooo

what shatters when
the wet toothed
windowing
is closed