Erasing the scarecrow’s ankle with a cigarette. Cutting the hair of the crucified. Stars and jobs and stars.
In reverse, the baby looks like it's helping the doctors build a machine. I smoke on the roof and my brother gets a nosebleed in the cellar of a house we're not going to buy. Art invents time to impress pain.
Nude I carry my untouched handprint into the past disappearance of a photographed leaf. Pain and sickness lose each their memory but lose god’s first. It’s dark in the dark. Lift a spider’s broken finger.
The sleepwalker and the insomniac asking god to switch their hidden pregnancies.The fly my ghost calls rain.A vaccine for object permanence.
This church doesn't have a bell. This angel has no bee. Pain resets god.
People leave the room to talk about god. I become someone else in my sleep.
I wouldn't in another life know where to begin. I make others lonely.
snow has to be the loneliest food
A son goes online in a country of grief. In a city of sayings. My teeth don’t fit, is one. Puberty struck the wrong dollhouse match, is another. Enough, though, of that. Angels don’t have a language. Pain uses its ghost to bite god in a dream.
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