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and god a meal
that switches
bodies

that an insect
misremembers

in the song, my father goes in and out of sleep on a stretcher that his mother took from a movie set.

I like that my teeth protect my teeth.

touch is at first
a bowl
and then
a smaller
bowl

as
for sleep
I’ll die
in yours

she writes
to notice
nothing

god and pain have the same god

no great turtle
to straighten
the dead
no
not here
in Ohio

an Ohio
that eats
its weight
in spiders
an Ohio

of slow
obsessions
effortless
sorrows

a lifejacket
on fire
a pebble
named
after blood’s
ear
a thunderclap

the late
crawl
of a dizzy
child

in the mother’s dream
a brother and a sister
watch a movie
without a name

a movie that between them
is called
This Is Not
A Dream

there’s no one
in the movie

water holds an animal
and sometimes
there are buildings
that buildings
describe

death gets to name every baby but its own

mostly this movie is about what I don’t want to see in a movie

–

son is trying to hold behind his ear a slice of orange (however long you think a day is

his hands are by it
getting smaller

–

talent doesn’t keep God awake

–

what the angel does with its half of the caterpillar…

(is it still
all about
location

the shop
of your
forgetting

a raindrop
trapped
in ankle’s
dream