barking crazy
he is, wrangling a snootful
of wasps, spilling his
wrong-showing guts
all over the linoleum,
showing his ass
to the children
of the local baboon
and scaring them,
barking crazy gut showing
ass showing man,
all of him hanging out
the window trying to reach
the flowers below,
the bees snarling up onto him,
welts popping up everywhere
there’s a bare inch of skin and
there’s so much skin showing,
even with his guts and ass showing he’s
half noble in his undignified reach
toward the flowers, the tulips and
lilacs, the weeds attempting
to become our joy, and the man,
the barking crazy man with visible stains
and sore hands, the naked dear man falling
just now from the window, he is pointing
at the dandelions and crying as he falls
toward them — not from fear for himself,
but for fear
of crushing them
before we understand.