three giants obsessed with face-sized halloween masks die in their sleep after my brother breaks his nose and enters what we'll come to call his birdbeak years - a dream that changes what you watch
Wild Indian, as steered by director Lyle Mitchell Corbine Jr., is an injured map of a movie where scars mark themselves more by what looks for them than by what finds them. All the performers here understand to sound out the misspellings rather than say outright what might lead the viewer too correctly. Michael Greyeyes makes central to their character's gait an overlong suddenness that is simultaneously melancholy and terrifying, while Chaske Spencer uses eye and skin to keep from losing the old now of wound to the new now of the invisibly healed. Helluva movie, and it lasts the entire film.
blood is a star being made too quickly - there were pictures only I could see
to keep touch from gathering touch for the things my body won't love - to cough quietly in the premature futures of loneliness - to not know the secret that sleep tells death about breathing - to mouth a word created to exist
I often believe myself to be dying
and fail to miss the restorative absence of touch
On a blue
arm
a mosquito
born in god's
erasable
kiss.
A clown
so early
to the unmoving
dog.
Most movies
are hidden
by sleep.
2019 from ( diets of the resurrected ) Ohio: Sounds from the childhood of god’s vocabulary. Animal hair in a father’s shoes. Lightning. Brothers reaching into scarecrows for ice. / 2017 [ passings ] clown car too much for ghost / 2016 [ crib worship ] an animal lost in a little church a hallucinating buzzard snow that light replaced
city 148 Jesus on the cross, mother in a tree Hair keeps god awake * city 149 I smoke and one place on my body knows three on yours
city 146 Forehead to forehead, the sick children blur the coin of labor's voided palm. * city 147 The end of silence met with
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city 144 because you wanted to know what ghosts do about their missing * city 145 In the elevator of the nightly named Bruise Hotel your mother points to her stomach and says to you that your eyes will never kiss
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