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December 24, 2015 / barton smock

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~ salutations for daughter

dear pilot of my father’s animal

dear tree
the ahistoric
ghost

dear space
blood

~ daughteresque

what would she ask
sadness

that old blindfold
from the future

how did you
get old, how

did my father
eat
and eat
at the same

time

perhaps
you’ve seen it
the mask
that took

my face

~ motheresque

she can’t stop herself
from knowing
the fleas
are burning
what with
her passionless
baby

its biological
god

~ afteresque

what bone am I, stillness?

what can I tell my son
I carried?

what is it knows me
that isn’t god
by the humans
I am
in my sleep?

infancy, what overtakes
your period
of mourning?

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