how to bathe
a red chameleon
from the childhood
of Moses
we heard it last night. the bell on the rabbit’s foot. it made mom want to cook. and sleepwalk. and mice did the wave.
a man turns a brick into a bird, yeah
call beautiful
what you can.
bird has no idea
and my home
is there.
we come for death, stay for mother.
I cut myself
might a memory
make room
for sound.
god studies his own cure.
holes
for breathing
some get
to heaven.
I know a woman whose shadow will never be the same.
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we are eating from a bowl that wants to go home.
god’s brain was devoured by a stone.
I saw my father. he was on his second bird.
his teeth were yellow.
or yellowish.
little doors, little me.
a room of real yellow.
a cigarette burn and the time it tells once. gum in the puppet’s hair.
blind date
with birth.
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some readings:
11.4.16
6.27.17
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some poems:
[stars from a glass eye]
its gaze
a eulogy
for distance
the animal
is mostly
pity
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[beheadings]
poverty is nothing more than jesus pouring milk from a soldier’s helmet into the nest of a delirious and elsewhere bird. how long have you had that invisible mirror? I can’t taste blood. fever is my mother’s crown.
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[archetype]
we put your favorite chair in your favorite place to stand. you are still as human as the suppression of appetite. people drift in and out of weird dogs that your brothers call grief and your sister the aliens that remember god.
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