violences, from late 2025

VIOLENCES BEFORE BED

designed our brother designed a bathtub that couldn’t hold itself in any position long enough to keep god’s gaze in the injured overlap of stillness as paroled by a creator stuck in a shape-addicted form

designed our sister designed her sister as a crying joke inside of a third sister whose hearing loss created the moon

designed the moon designed an egg to break the ribs of the moon


VIOLENCES BEFORE TOUCH

designed I designed a thumb and with it started the scarecrow’s collapsed church of celibacy

designed my doglike creature designed for a deer a memory using only those sounds taught to god by cars driven at night by blow-up dolls mourning the pink life of mimes 

designed we designed a drunkenness that could breathe for a hole and the hole filled us with crickets and teeth

designed the cricket designed a classic hummingbird too stunned by the non-miracle of beast to leave the pecked eye of christ for the prayer of stillness darkened by a specifically timeworn crow done with being three times the size of god

designed god designed the same creatures as god

I had my honeyed life

designed my weakest son designed, ah

designed my passing designed passage through tapeworm’s nightmare of permanent stars

designed this poem designed the idea that a cricket could leave something in the future and get it back

tattoo
a wasp
its father


VIOLENCES BEFORE DREAMLIFE

designed a seasick photo designed a darkroom to keep the empty trap from dreaming of god’s unsurprised stomach

designed we designed a terrified mirror to sleep with the angel who imagined our seeing

designed your mother’s mouth designed a grape all could eat from memory


VIOLENCES BEFORE SWEETNESS

designed lightning designed a pair of scissors from something sleeping in the thigh sobbing on the right side of god

designed sound designed a voice for god as a way for animals to tell jokes 

unburn
the angels

it’s my year to add a brother

designed these fuckers designed

designed a machine designed a map to cover with cornfields the umbilical cord koans of data abandonment 

designed sleep designed restraint blue

designed blue

designed my brothers designed they are white

designed skin designed pressing on prayer with the oyster bruise of a fingernail starved in a mirror by the invisible disciples of nakedness

designed death death I did this for


VIOLENCES BEFORE CREATURE

designed your phone designed for mine a thumb as the secret god of a hairbrush teaching blood to crawl

designed eating designed eating the bee stings in our smuggled bread

designed the injured designed the dead


VIOLENCES BEFORE ASTONISHMENT

designed image designed a look for the expressionless to use in their broadcast of our expired witness

designed passage designed nothing moving in doom’s souvenir deer

death
isn’t moving

a ghost is an angel that remembers killing god


VIOLENCES BEFORE MEN

designed the afterlife designed the afterlife of missing children 

designed the dream designed its biological dream


VIOLENCES BEFORE EGGSHELL

designed the tornado designed a still child’s stomach for the painter of tornadoes

designed the healthy designed a tongue scraping by on nudes reading from god’s fingertips

designed the sick designed the sick getting sick outside

designed vigil designed a prayer-chain drinking game

designed the baby designed a baby okay with dying

designed intimacy designed a son speaking near his father’s mouth

designed a fingernail designed a method of tracing a haircut inside of a circle the moon met online

write to your mother and live