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~ shuteye in the land of the sacred commoner [& other poems]
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~

poems, from:

[ally]

the robotic jaw
lifting otherness
from a hole
in a body cast

no litter
of bewitched
kittens, no wild

crop
of soundlings
angry

at the wrong
life

~

[tocsin]

the singlemost mother has heard of a skin cream can turn one into darkness.

a bar of soap that reads palms…

–

on display for the poker face of birth, you are the vision footage dies for.

–

you have this father
leaves
no stone
unseen

this brother

haunted
by surplus
aftermath…

–

before it was an ear, it was where

she scrubbed

~

[On contact]

hold kitten
like a rifle. pop

a paper sack
at your father’s

ear. ah, your father

who was made to kneel

for two
maybe three
things

(god, shrapnel) a flying saucer

from the wreckage of his church

~

[purlieu]

a bruise, a school

of fish. a caterpillar

crossing

the floor
of hell. a thought

sick
to a son’s
stomach, a winter

glove
in spider’s
nightmare.

~

[notes for eggshell]

beneath the tethered astronaut of his dream

the impossible boy
misses

something small

the human ear, its recent
brush
with whale

~

[domain] for Katherine Osborne

falsehoods
I was sure
to say
to a horse, things like
god is sending
his middle
child
to collect
a drop
of my daughter’s
blood, or

it’s a sin
to be
1989, things I felt

I owed
the horse, that were
horse-like
in their stillness, that went
nowhere
when nowhere
was

come fly
or flat
earth

the dark’s
bitch