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poetry collections, mine, self-published, are here: http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/acolyteroad

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some recent poems:

[gut musics]

walking
a blank
stretch

to rival / the disappearing /

wilderness
of starvation

/ the bride
of reflection
with her dog
made of sticks

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[motel variance]

fuck am I to do
boy

with a resurrected
moth

–

her decoy’s
clock
distracted
by time, she swims

to have
no ghost

–

on tv
the carpenter
dies
we adjust
his tinfoil
hat

–

cleaning
is in
the blood

let them think

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[repast]

god as the complete
thought
I shared
with death…

skull
short
for squirrel

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[from a letter to my body]

when there are no mothers, I will crawl toward the one sitting with what her legs couldn’t burn and I will ask my blood to be the same fish

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[dog musics]

i.

brother
while slicing
an apple
changes
his name
to earshot

ii.

an orange eats everything
but its mask. there was no ocean

iii.

until we hid from the storm. ticks are crickets

iv.

that belong to the poor

you won’t
drink it
but ask
anyway
for a glass
of milk.

vigil.

that bone you broke
while swimming.

a reason to have children is that you’ll cease to remember them

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death, a meal that doesn’t end

that is not
a feast

for Traci Brimhall

i.

no one
in a future
life
was me

ii.

body

the inheritor
of the quick
dream

/ body asking its mother

where to begin