Under (Orleans LXXXI '91)

Under the lacquer, the grain of the wood
swept along, useful, handy

Under the tarp, the body stiffened

Under his gaze, she reached across the table
and brushed the spider from his collarbone

Under police protection, he whored
and gambled with drug money

Under his blankets, the sheets became
wet as his brain finished its self-seduction

Under the foot deep sheet of snow, the squirrel's hoard
of acorns nestled, warming with the dirt

Under her dress, things began to happen if
she thought of that certain something he did with his eyes

Under the likeness of his love, he walked
along la Rue de Tours

Under the smooth tone of the man's voice, a hint
of vulgarity lurked like a mugger

Under her watch, a patch of peau
remained pour la plupart pigment free

Under the tree, the apple unfortunately hit
his other head.

Under the window, the weather beaten hands
gathered up the tickets

Under pressure, she was likely to tear chunks
from her fingers with her teeth

Under a false name, the teenagers dryly battered
away at each other in a dimly lit hotel room

Under the weather, he didn't feel like
going out that night

Under my thumb, the girl, who once
had me down

Understudying the lead, he sat in the green room
and smoked to pass the time

Under the impression that she still loved him, he flew a
great distance to be kicked in the balls

Under several feet of soil in a yard behind a fireplace,
lies the summer of my content, undiscovered

Under her tongue, the pill that averted the heart attack
slowly dissolved, leaving a wonderfully bitter aftertaste

Under the past, we beat on
boats against the current

Under the napkin, the fatty piece of ham lay,
glistening after having tumbled from a mouth

"Under my dead body," said the casket
to the missile silo

Under his foot, the pedal sank
and the speedometer rose with the lump in his throat
and the tears in his eyes

Understanding the heart of another is like pulling the pin
on a grenade and wrapping it in thin, colored paper

Underwriting the cost of the trip, he noticed many
discrepancies in the books

Under 4 minutes and 45 seconds was his goal and his
lungs filled impossibly, triumphantly, after a time of 4:43

Under the tack on the map, the city of Austin
sat, pinned, tapped

Underground, rock is bubbling

Under their parents watchful eyes, the two young lovers
only held hands, knowing that more was expected of them

Underwater he opened his eyes and saw her
striped bikini twisting sensually through bubbles from his mouth

Under a local anaesthetic, he told the doctor that
he often rode his bicycle in the rain and he didn't care
WHO knew it

Under the door, a book of matches slid silently

Under the car, the oil dropped onto the forehead
and slowly drooled down into the close cropped crew cut

Under the covers, the fart hung like a cloud formation and
as he was not awake to wave it away it stank for quite awhile

Under his left eye, the blood trickled toward
his lip and the broken capillaries were already forming a bruise

Under the influence of alcohol, his thoughts were flat
and full of water and dirty words

Sous-terre, la fleuve coulait

Under where?

Under there.

Underwear!

Under the table, the Black Lab
lapped at the scrap

Under the Declaration of Independence, the table scratched
under the ink and the quill of history

Under the Constitution, we are presumed innocent
until proven guilty

Under his hairpiece, his wrinkled talcum powdered
scalp itched and twitched

Under the lid of the mahogany colored box, the undiscovered
summer consisted of objects diverse, objects of friendship

Under her fingernails, the garden dirt gathered
and then dissolved with the water from the hose

Under his copy of Ulysses, the dust gathered and formed
until he plunged his head into the cleanness of the words

"Under the porch of the general post office, the shoe blacks called and polished"

Under his bushy grey eyebrows, his green eye, the good one,
twinkled like a slowly dying star

Under the curl of the salty wave, he extended his arms
to ride the mystery of the tide

Under duress, he was unable to keep the military secret
from squeezing through his clenched teeth

Undermining his ability to make love, was a grain,
a morsel of a religion he had otherwise left behind

Underlined in black felt pen ink throughout the newspaper,
a ransom note unfurled like a flag

Under an open strong cold sky, the sides of his fingers bled
as he ferociously strummed the black acoustic guitar

Under the eyes of our forefathers, men were packed
onto boats like clowns into a car

Under attack, the soldiers lashed back, watching
bullet bursts disappear into the lovely jungle

Under the reign of Henry V, men embraced
shining enemy swords on St. Cripsin's Day

Under a certain height, she was allowed to bounce
inside the gigantic grasshopper

Under the pop up, he felt flashbulbs capturing him
and his impending moment of triumph

Under Ben Bulben, an Irishman wrote
his own epitaph

Under ever future, Helen's rhapsodic
forever dangled with turquoise tassels

Under the small of her back, his fingers lightly
lifted her from the mattress, closer, deep

Under the arc of soft light thrown from the lamp, the top of
her turquoise lace lingerie was visible over the unbuttoned
end of the edge of her cotton shirt

Under Saturn's gravity pull, one might find oneself turning
somersaults into hotel walls, repeatedly

Underage drinking has become quite a problem, along with
the fact that marijuana isn't legal

Under elven enchantment, O'Herlihy braced himself to
catch the falling pot as he was bathed in the ultraviolet range

Under an ancient curse, yet unaware of it, Mr. Wallace was perplexed by the
books that kept popping out of bookcases onto his head, which
was, lucky for him, the extent of the curse

Under amber floral, coral crystal cable traced
basilisk religious flow

Under spastic seizure, her tongue lolled and
sank back into her throat

Under hypnosis, her left hand strayed to the
patch of white under the yellow pleats

Under the stream of hot shower water, he lathered and
lathered and lathered, until he came, a hot stream in a hot stream

Underweight, his bones made corners, edges,
traceable and jagged

Under the painting entitled "Beastie With A Piece Of Tomorrow," the
dark piece of furniture was strewn with keys, stamps, and mail

Under her fingers, the ivory jangled and mewed and
sat just outside his ears

Under these circumstances, it was best for him not to
see her anymore

Under every plate, a delicate lace doily lay, snowflaked
fragile and slightly flattened by the weight of the food

Under frantic bouillon, gastric bastards built
brick battalions and blew up balloons with rancid breath

Under my jurisdiction, everybody works damn hard and
the next meal don't come quite fast enough

Under the new rules, it was now quite legal to shoot
someone in the back as long as you had the right bullets

Under the greasepaint and the clown costume, he threw himself
not only into the role, but through it and onto the other
side of Sganarelle "The Flying Doctor"

Under plastic wrapping, hot dogs sat in the lukewarm air
and held their weak juice inside until the expiration date

Under the tutelage of a man with very little hair, she began
to spit fire and threw blue chairs at appropriate moments

Under the shadow of the skyscraper, he remembered the
words of Hellsbeagle - "Building's don't pee" and then
saw the trickle of water tracing the sidewalk crack

Under mountains lie caves with contents of great import

Under a bridge he bounced over the water face down and
waited to be brought back up to life

Under the hood the radiator hissed and spewed like
hell hath no fury

Under the yellow roar, colors of trumpets bathed
in the baptismal pile of leaves, fall

Under his nose, the small piece of mucous hung,
indecisive

Under his bed, a sleepy monster told him
to quit the whining and get some sleep, they had
all had a long week

Under the yacht, a sand crab was crushed and the
spiraling seaweed was snipped neatly in two

Under orders from the higher ups, he called the unsuspecting
man into his office

"Under a Blood Red Sky"

"Under a Cherry Moon"

Understatement of the century he thought when she
tried to explain something away

Under Ronald Wilson Reagan, status quo, status quo,
status quo, flair, Insane Anglo Warlord, anagram

Under Abbey's harlequin, the honest lizard fought
with the dog who dressed like a cat

Under the sea green porcelain toilet seat, a droplet of urine
lay, almost gelatinous, contact lens-like in the fluorescent glow,
and her eyes misted over at the memory of a man in the house

Under that makeup he thought, lies the face of a
drunkard, crazier than a shithouse rat

Under the mantelpiece, just above the fireplace, a homemade heart
of tiny rocks hung against the reddened wood and beat
in time to the flickering flames that forced it to keep pumping
and kept it on the verge of death, radiant

Under the statue of Jeanne D'Arc, a petit penis let fly, pissing at
the feet of a legend, avoiding his mother's glare

Under George Bush, status quo, status quo,
status quo, and a stupid, vain, dangerous bird

Under her pillow, two baby teeth sat in an envelope hoping to be
worth enough to buy the next dream, and delay the denial of youth

Under the crisp baguette, the porcelain purple flowers were
emblazoned on a background of white and a small rivulet of
butter inched toward the center of the plate, where the bread
crossed over the stalk of the foliage - all this in slight relief

Under ceilings, floors are sometimes green with envy

Under Paul Westerberg's ragged sigh, drums beat
clearer than gunshots and guitars zigged and zagged, the
bass was damn good too

Under his chin, the padded black glove of leather threw
stars into his head as the spectators flipped themselves
upside down

Under rotating histories, clocks of violet gravel
dribbled slowly into diamond gutters

Under his new religion, Oct. 27 was a very
important day

Under the quicksand, in a silence complete, the
skeletal frame gestured for help although it had been
dead for some time; the sand had shifted, forcing a
movement, and stirring a terrible hope

Under her low sensual murmur, a pulse of blue
spread warmly, quickly, and slowly through the
tendons in the back of her legs and shot up into
her mouth and eyes as she spoke his name aloud

Under the "blue, red, and grey", they sipped cocktails
and grumbled about how early they had to get up the next day

Under "The Persistence of Memory", the cover of
Ulysses hung, hovering over french centimes in
a clear glass ashtray

Under pot-soaked linoleum, a couple
floated, flyingsauceresque and noble

Under his eyelids, an image popped and danced
like a marionette on a bed of coals

Under it, nothing had been disturbed,
nothing at all

Under the existing laws, it is fine for
fifteen year old black urban youths to shoot
each other over cocaine yet we won't
pass laws for white businessmen
to kill themselves with it legally

Under his left sleeve, the dogshit squirted in either
direction, the perfect capper to his day

Under the place where her panties had been, he spoke
several languages, all of which she heard in
the brightest of blues

Under 263, he needed 13 more lines to reach it and
as 13 was his lucky #...

Under a twirling flaming lamp-post, the army
soldier inhaled her flaxen
hair, thinking of dragons, jesters, lances,
and feasts and he threw purple
bottles of magic elixir high into the air
and drank from the clouds they made

And she and his best friend drank along with him

Under all lay his love of life, his fear of death
and somehow a sense that he was not alone

Under the lines of under, he wrote a word that
never would be.

Over.