OXBASKETING

the white oxen in the shallows
are blindhoofed
wreaking subficial violences on
the pomegranate espaliers
which undersleep your cherished summers.

the summer wethers prance
an unsudden unwickering
of sodden osiers
a countercleftpoint
of diffusion.

spayed bitch casts her bait
and germinates unangelled in oily solitudes
while rosy dangling boy-heels beat
a garden's pulse against the quay.