{else, wear}

some recent:

[tree of nothing’s apple]

I know a woman whose shadow will never be the same.

–

we are eating from a bowl that wants to go home.

~

[cat number eight enters the dream]

how many fingers, fork

will hunger
lose

–

I am the trap
god sets
for my kids

~

[our dog is growling at a hotel pillow]

god remembers

a giant

that to us
was plain

~

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