SET GAUGE TO STEM, THE LEGEND SUGGESTS By Raymond Cummings

Set gauge to stem, the legend suggests:
a wash and style for a lavender twist.
(As of this writing, no dialectic to speak of,
Just shadows at celestial play, or nestled into
The crooks of sundials.)
Magpies klatch in copses. Rose
petals part, to whisper: “a Rumba, idiomic cryptology, stray code.” You
tease words into meanings, press flowers within volumes, notarize


sighs.

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Raymond Cummings is a freelancer writer whose work has appeared in The Baltimore Paper, The Village Voice, and on splicetoday.com. The author of two books of poetry - Crucial Sprawl and Assembling The Lord - Cummings lives in Round Rock, Texas with his family.