Hand-standing Anstett grandstands
upside down at length about the finer

view this vantage and the massive
upper body strength and lung capacity

it takes, eye-level with the gathering
audience’s knees, his expanding,

contracting mouth expounding
ad lib ad hoc nonstop, out of context

above nostrils, beseeching
all of you to listen, flipped,

legs in the air like insect’s feelers, bodies
inversely vertical on throbbing palms.