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BORNOGRAPHY
it is common for the male cannibal to carry the skin of the due child
fasting is a sin and starvation a commandment
orphans are given home movies and edible pillows
language is a head
we bring it cake
~
DYING AT HOME
bring little, for I am a small room.
my clothes are yours and have always been lonely.
from nowhere
came beauty
to avoid
god.
bruise, ye
from nightgown
to blanket.
be kind, history
to those
in my dream.
~
WHOLE CHILDREN
whose nights come to them in food
wrote lullabies
for cocoon
and stuttered
~
RIBBON ON A BLINDFOLD
suicide
is death’s
unicorn
~
VIANDS
no person was made in the harming of this creature.
hands off, angel,
the baby’s
glove.
~
HILLS AND STARS
for her date with the giant, mom is putting on her face. our time, invisible chameleon, is over.
brain of a…
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I come from a place where a school bus hits a dog and the bus driver barks and all her kids play dead
still.
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I am, in the dark of an unwashed submarine, kissing his head
like it had
a message.
the body of jesus
pulled from the sea
the last robot to name its baby.
two smokers
back-to-back
in the high
corn.
the spoonfeeder’s ferris wheel.
litterbug’s
shadow.
no god. no wind.
sick son’s kite.
the pea
asleep…
i.
upstairs
the last
to go
ii.
iii.
door
is so
forgetful
of everything
his writing
destroyed
as soon as there is food, it is eaten. the amount of food doesn’t matter. mom knows this. her sons like light.
mom in a new place. remarried. the dark too long in choosing a shadow. no one in a nearby church thinking about her boys. food everywhere. food nowhere.
absence irreplaceable.
