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my books are here:
http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/acolyteroad

a reading from ~Drone & Chickenhouse~
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPk-g6KKio8

a reading from ~Eating the Animal Back to Life~

some poems from collections available:

[lone actor]

and she was nice to her kids not because she loved them but because not a single one of them was predicted to reach an age high enough to become an only child. and she held on to coat hangers and to memories of pressing outlet covers into place. and she lynched dolls claiming they’d be lanterns for god when god got brave enough to move again. and what went on without her went on to cheat death or her brother out of his massacre.

[earthen]

she removes a bruise-colored diaper. autopilot. on foot, she passes a bike her bike has beaten. the spatial awareness of a previous male has her wanting to buy batteries for toys your son has buried. below, in city, in a silent film’s ambulance, her son expires. she collapses on the wrong side of satan’s ear. on hand, her father’s body in a hammock is god’s arm in a sling. her mother’s last memory is second to none. is of a baby being the size of a bullet.

[dream’s fossil]

dear eggshell belly. dear mother. dear church of my father’s owl. dear Ohio. dear owl the deaf bee’s church.

[bury the song of my twin]

I am never where I am left. I am in my head where my hair is long. give god nothing to pull and the devil nothing to scrub. these, are my sister’s. and this: I was born to be here for my location. her exact words are covered in body language. her seizures come in twos in the order they were named. ghost reader, passive hypnotist. she wants only what I send in my sleep. her baby to beauty’s audition.

[immersion]

your attacker has a history of being baptized. identifies as male. was found hallucinating in a movie theater run by his father. we shot him not knowing he’d already been. his mother says his stutter is an act. she is what we call empty inside. you look like your father.