the sea
its oldest
orphanage
the angel
of a butterfly
from hell’s
first council
of sleep
watches
as we kiss
on the hand
our hunger
ate
childish nicknames for the messiah
these desperate meditations
on the ghost
of a sober
twin
I am not death but enter
like it
the church
of so many
canceled
spelling bees
to ask
whose punishment
for being born
am I
fast
reader, the mother-
pink
illness
through a grey
pig
(the belly button
an ash
tray
for angel
long gone are the insects
you forgave
this storm, the whale
of oblivion’s
white feast, this moon
the word
moon
mother’s peach
my stick
man’s
church bell
a ghost
has seen
a doll
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I ain’t been talked to in so long my wife’s kid thinks I have amnesia. ain’t been touched since Ohio’s ramshackle symbolism swallowed up some organ donor’s shadow. I went yesterday to a funeral for a woman’s ear. told people what I was wearing was a bedsheet belonged to the man in the moon. told myself I had this microscope could see a ghost and that I’ve only ever lost an empty house. I don’t know how old I am but I know what year I want it to be. before dying I saw it flash how I should have died. low creature. tugboat.
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father an optometrist inspecting a replica of a totem pole and mother an eel collapsing at the thought of a play performed in a stone.
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in a nightmare
(praying over
his father
to highlight
the size
of the first
computer)
he disproves
god
(son) who breathes
for a snake
made of milk
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