No crops to sow. No shocks. No cobs, no corn’s
down floss. No cock’s crow. No storms
to grow. No cool to morn. No blood to spot; no flocks
of cotton bolls to lop. No flocks. No loons,
no motmots, no crows. No brook to ford, no flood
to drown: no ghost woods. No clots
of snow. No cordwood to stow. No moss. No north.
No woods. No fork not to follow: no Frost.
No Wordsworth. No Woolworth’s. No worth
to show. No stockroom’s goods to sort—top-notch,
so-so: no town blocks to loot. No mob. No loss. No door
to lock. No room to mop. No door. No room. No ghost
to spoon. No slow songs, dolor-thrown: no sobs.
No throngs, no boss. No cooks to bog
the broth. No roots. No roost. No owls, no storks,
no coots. No fox. No coop. No slop
to toss. No hot blood to cool, no cold
to school. No cool cloth. No pods’ slow bloom
to moths. No hopscotch, no workbook. No pompoms,
no hotshot jocks, no proms. No rock. No roll. No knoll
to mow. No boom-box to boost, no rooftop croon—no
roofs. No horns to toot. No blow. No stock
to prod, no cows’ long low. No port
for fools, no storm-shook moon: no months
of monsoons. No ghost not grown. No trolls. No gold
not to own. No torts, no pro bono work: no job
lost. No to, no from. No mood control. No too hot
for wool. No too smog for sport. No cogs, no
logs to roll. No foothold lost. No hook, no crook:
no dog. No wolf. No clop of hoofs, no boom
of boots: no door to knock. No clock. No good odds
to blow. No vows—no slow morph to dolls
of drool. No broth to cool. No bowl. No spoon.
No food for gods, for ghosts. No food
for compost. No worms to sod. No woodwork’s
box. No plot to own. No tooth to sow, no sooth
to toll: no torso. No blogs to scroll. No good
book to gloss. No on, no off. No wrong,
no not. No too hot to trot. No cold cock. No who.
No whom. No thorn of moon. No London fog, no horns
on loop. No Boston snow to slog. No stoop. No Oz,
no om, no O2 lost. No no-show good god
to cross. No crown. No thorns. No tock
from womb to tomb. No slow
soft rot. No blood to own. No bomb not good
to go. No shock. No glow. No
blossom blown. No good world now
not flown.