a rolling hitch, eye splice
and under the skin-fur
a noose, there. if i bread you
out like ginger then
cut you here and there
you might be tiny men or
snaps.

my hand is a nest of cramp,
skinny-jean fingers,
shrunk-fit. i pummel you
slight as bird-hopped snow
in the yolky sun.

here i love you. my beak
of twigs, iced gems-
morninghasbroken mice
twisted cherry stalks, a dagger
of mirror, springs
in your thorax gone
ah ha,

i love you. i cannot put my
hand into you. cat-gut strung
knuckled in bunches of words,
we appear and leave,
top-most of trees and breeze, a comet
burns through us, in a while
the darkness bright as an organ
follows.

my saucer of milk. far away
you send me pieces of violence-
a boy-shaped mouth in my fabric
and your lucian gregory blood
spilled out nice in the road.

* 1885 Hen
* 1886 Hen with Sapphire Pendant†
* 1887 Blue Serpent Clock
* 1888 Cherub with Chariot†
* 1889 Nécessaire†
* 1890 Danish Palaces
* 1891 Memory of Azov
* 1892 Diamond Trellis
* 1893 Caucasus
* 1894 Renaissance
* 1895 Rosebud
* 1895 Twelve Monograms
* 1896 Revolving Miniatures
* 1896 Alexander III Portraits†
* 1897 Coronation
* 1897 Mauve†
* 1898 Lilies-of-the-Valley
* 1898 Pelican

* 1899 Bouquet of Lilies Clock
* 1899 Pansy
* 1900 Trans-Siberian Railway
* 1900 Cockerel
* 1901 Basket of Wild Flowers
* 1901 Gatchina Palace
* 1902 Clover Leaf
* 1902 Empire Nephrite†
* 1903 Peter the Great
* 1903 Royal Danish†
* 1904 No eggs made
* 1905 No eggs made
* 1906 Moscow Kremlin
* 1906 Swan
* 1907 Rose Trellis
* 1907 Cradle with Garlands
* 1908 Alexander Palace
* 1908 Peacock

* 1909 Standart Yacht
* 1909 Alexander III Commemorative†
* 1910 Colonnade
* 1910 Alexander III Equestrian
* 1911 Fifteenth Anniversary
* 1911 Bay Tree
* 1912 Czarevich
* 1912 Napoleonic
* 1913 Romanov Tercentenary
* 1913 Winter
* 1914 Mosaic
* 1914 Grisaille
* 1915 Red Cross with Triptych
* 1915 Red Cross with Imperial Portraits
* 1916 Steel Military
* 1916 Order of St. George
* 1917 Karelian Birch
* 1917 Constellation (unfinished)

* 1898 Hen
* 1899 Twelve Panel
* 1900 Pine Cone
* 1901 Apple Blossom
* 1902 Rocaille
* 1903 Bonbonnière
* 1904 Chanticleer

* 1885-1891 Blue Striped Enamel
* 1902 Duchess of Marlborough
* 1902 Rothschild
* 1907 Youssoupov
* 1914 Nobel Ice
* 1885-1889 Resurrection
* 1899-1903 Spring Flowers

† Indicates missing egg