save.”
            The whelk
is an instrument
of voices.

Throw
            it back,
by which he means, drown
them out. What

is
            Caesar’s:
a lineage cheered
by gorging

sea
            unseen.
Finest vintage scorn
money owns

wails
            fuente
de la juventud
to his health.

(My
            frequent
documentary
edging); his:

let
            high tide
wall, burnish, plastic
surgery

my
            sands. Let
them lax mundanely
youthful, white.