proxemics
i.
it is said
every morning
that a baby’s
cry
is birdsong
to satan
but I have known
some quiet
birds
ii.
once, at a surprise party for distance, I took water as a sign from god
(a turtle
was handed
to a boy
iii.
here is your mother
quoting mine:
grief speaks and suddenly all this time I’ve been saying it wrong
iv.
(was in Ohio that a girl on a homemade skateboard told me her father lost his nose to an angel burning a shoebox in an empty pool
v.
what
teaches death
about us
kingsoftrain 
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