kingsoftrain

a found grief in these eggs that scar the pan

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moon
gives mom
a toothache

–

if you can, bed hunger.

that sleepy
mirror…

–

not news
to your double
my death

a tongueless form eats from the psalm of your shape. I say birth

you say
assault. we are code

maybe
for embed. our mother pawns

the paw
in her stomach

hoping to afford an impression
of the hand
that created
hands.

I have prayed to a cautious god.

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

means, today:

the weight of a wheelchair / no bush on fire

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some recent writings:

[ideations]

the elderly
our unpraised
orphans
with healed
and self-taught
toys

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cancer is a pop gun and when I say missing I mean her body was seen by the lonely / her body / was having children but only those / we’d seen / in photos / I mean bus

of a christian
swim team

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when cooking, mama says she is burning the uniform of the country I was dragged through. she knows better than to come from rib. cheek, maybe. or fishhook.

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scar to my wound, this man believes in god. the last thing I learn is what I know. Franz Wright’s final book is called The Toy Throne. I understand this man when he says he was born with a disabled child. what is lightning

to a fish

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faith a shoelace in an unbroken egg

I stare at the letter x

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the plate

in god’s head
is a writer’s
dream. she crows

her three
words
for stoplight
as a doll

bites down
on a stick…

math is maybe not the best look for grief

and hunger

too academic

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after suicide, everything that happens is the past

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I am not a ghost,

hand
I use
the least

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the mothers they were rehearsing in the drive-thru
the sex talk for boys they thought
were still
alive

–

crush a white tick / you’ll become / a projectionist

–

sleep is a bleeding stopped by the eye

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with god
prepared
to remove
its white
stomach, the dream

sees brain
as the print
of its thumbless
hand

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/ to a breathing machine in a swimming pool

the angel says whale

/ my nightmare

has a whale. it takes grief

from a mule

/ my brothers are porn

and star. claustrophobes

haunting
the hard
to forgive

~

[bee pain]

all of your mother’s paintings have two names. father with cigarette or jesus

meet ghost.

–

four pounds / of my birth / were missing

~

[bee pain]

a pregnancy, a grief, a photographer

of rapture themed fashion shows…

this increase
in childhood. her wolf

raised
by astronauts