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December 27, 2015 / barton smock

extremity

the virgin boy is waiting for it to dry, it

being
the puppet’s
toothbrush. his lover

a practitioner
of moral sadness

knows the body as a representation
of surgeries none perform
and the future
as historically
inaccurate. where we’ve met before

I’ve narrowed down
to isolation. was there I last lost mother

with her hacksaw and chair
dreamily approaching
a tire swing
as if the human voice

on any land
letting go
of god

could raise
a tree.

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