I don’t know anything about swans
but there will be one
at the parade
so I am planning
to go
not to learn
about swan
but to see
their swan
my swan
unless of course
I see a swan
between now
and then
a swan
that is maybe
sick
what happened
swan
to the lightning
that drank
our milk
grief
is a red-haired jesus
whose barber
puts a dollhouse
mirror
on my mother’s
tongue
blood
is water’s
favorite
child
at the baptism
some agree
that my father
knows
his milk, others
that any creature
on four legs
has one
ghost
knows how
to swim
i.
where also
her belly button
doubles
as air
for any
shoebox
crow
resurrecting
erasure
poems
from god’s
past…
ii.
the caterpillar
dead
where ants
come to pray
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i.
overheard that our abuser’s mother
has a mouth as dry
as a mannequin’s
ear
ii.
my blood
doesn’t tell me
its dreams
pulled a kitten
from a saucer
of blood
so blood
could dry, how visionary
it is not
to evoke
retreat…
my first stair was a mid
western
paw
print god’s dreams
were bone
in
