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sometimes it happens. it is plural. there is this, a goodreads giveaway for my latest book ‘earth is part earth and there’s a hole in the sound I made you from’:

https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/170575-earth-is-part-earth-and-there-s-a-hole-in-the-sound-i-made-you-from

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also, be sure to check out Dink Press at dinkpress.com / from which a chapbook of mine titled ‘infant cinema’ is forthcoming / but right now what is there is Tim Kahl’s ‘String of Islands’– a great book, a book that says the urge to form is sudden – it is here:

http://www.dinkpress.com/store/the-string-of-islands-tim-kahl

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and, today only, Lulu is offering 25% off all print books with coupon code of FEBFLASH25. my books are here:

http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/acolyteroad

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some older poems:

[deep scene]

speech itself is a failed translation

dreaming is a farm

a mother
makes it as far
as mailbox

bear
to fish
there’s water
in the water

is, today’s mousetrap
tomorrow’s

shoe

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[existence gospel]

the quiet woman mothers a silence gone rogue

and names
her kid
to death

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[creatural]

I am reading
the book
that keeps me
from palm

–

during your pregnancy
an interactive
apathy
prepared
an alternate
witness
for the witness
to eat

–

I liked
your poem
the panther’s
boat

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[input]

I am the photo my visions take.

high
on memorization
the mother
has to believe
in god
for god
to have
a safe
word.

the boy is dirt and noise. is hindsight’s
gospel.

loneliness, meet maker.

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[themes for sea]

the prodigal son of simplicity

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the pill popper’s
demographic

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the mouth
as it keeps
the face
from parting

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the canyon
of where
not
to snort
the ashes
of risen
sheep

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paper
and the cup
it’s being

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[buzzer therapy]

dearest ear,
god is not my fault.

I can hear the worm’s message,
the anthill’s thunder.

revelation comes
once a week
to come out
of its coma. between us,

my rapist belongs to me.

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[fieldwork]

the evacuated court of my son’s illness.

the blind man’s
missing
eyelid.

the grief, the broth, the reacquired thrift.

the dispersed body. the hotbeds

of skeletal
trauma.

the dance music as mother’s
chthonian
darling.

the sorrow method. the rhythm.