{ aches, etc }

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animal masks on the floor of the ocean

mouse, teacup of the missing stork-

owl, lamb of night-

this was god. he was sad and everyone noticed.

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deer ache

i.

my god a failed author who describes

the creature left in eden
to the creature
not

ii.

my…

iii.

a rocking horse taken by helicopter

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design ache

how sick
was christ
we’ll never
know
but a bird
and a fish
dream
in halves
of outlasting

touch
(this ghost
that prays
for its jailer
the mime

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tame ache

soap carvings
of birds
pulled mostly
from a son’s
thunderstorm…

here and there
a worm
wrapped around
a stone.

all imagery is the same.

if the food
is in your mouth

it’s too late.

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scene ache

in Ohio, a father mows the lawn of a friend and swallows what he thinks is a bug and that night

as he wonders if the bug will ever be finished
kissing
its eggs

his children tell him
to drink
something hot, his children

who compare
rug burns
and wait

for their invisible toys
to believe
all at once
in god

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film ache

at a certain height, nudity loses meaning

–

if bunk beds collapse in a museum made for emptiness, does Ohio

roll
from a crystal
ball

–

no hawk
is a wasp, but every

wasp…

–

I remember also when you called a tattoo

postage
for the afterlife

–

I see a tornado
and my teeth
turn yellow

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too old to pray

one has
in Ohio
that crucial
dream

the wasp and the footprint

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