1.

I wanted to ask how
     fractured of color

beaches pile reddening
     faces and questions
     adhere to form

how do you ask them?

I surrounded myself
     in a ring
    of ruddy incident

2.

like all things in the beginnings
     of context
a dictionary of only aleph

now I am trying
to count to one

the landscape is segmented mile
      by mile as a series
      of interations

a flounder flat on the sidewalk
      stared up in disbelief