to speak
it needs gum
from the invisible
purse.
comes with everything. cries like me.
god remembers
a giant
that to us
was plain
I would read my books by the light of brother burning his. sister could heal with her bare back the angels of lab rats. father drank water and mother its hiding place.
the boy on my shoulders says my hair is on fire. it is our longest running joke. he laughs so hard my ribs fall asleep in his childless stomach. he takes the cigarette from behind my ear…
his cough is a paintbrush. no father can kill god. the resurrected miss death.
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.
kingsoftrain 