feasts of projection (i – xv)
isness
(i)
were it not a mouthful, she’d have been disfigured by the mirage touched by god to oversee the transformative reading of the trapdoor’s bible of knock-knock jokes
(ii)
the story of her brother’s drowning
her father’s
haunted
toolbelt
told
separately
to the arsonist
who
while pulling
her by
the leg
from the house
of her sister
the fasting
mudwrestler
said
dig, you
tunnels
torch
the dark
(iii)
what is the baby doing on the floor
this tv show
about shyness
wow
she makes weight, auditions
naked
for the face
of god
is death
still known
for its one
mistake
(iv)
the stranger and the magician
walk the dog
their baby
girl
looks like
/ what the orphanage
knows
the nursing home
doesn’t
(v)
she prays to food
food
be gentle
birth
still leaves
me out
(vi)
she recognized
the poster
from the boy
she’d been seen
by dogs
with…
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