birthplace 32 In ours, Jesus practiced dying so we’d stop writing about it. Buried a starfish and never came back.
birthplace 31 They close the high-dive and open a rabbit church.
birthplace 30 The car moves through a woozy dog and we get our first nonviolent horse. Inside there are stories about the executioner’s daughter and her famous piggyback rides. I like the rain when it’s raining but am sad when I know simply that it’s rained. You can die from seeing double but not from looking at my father’s paintings of impossible cameras. No one wants to find a baby. God is still learning to faint.
birthplace 29 Sex positions in the order Ohio puts them in: They find a finger living in my hand. There’s never been a tongue that can de-age touch. God is faster when you’re drunk. I forget my gender, but only for you.
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birthplace 28 There is a deepness in me and there is a deepness in my brother. Some places exist only after you reach them twice. We listen to music, and god works on a cure. The slowing angels decide it’s okay to be seen. No one dreams underwater. Here is what to do if I live.
birthplace 27 Later I am talking story ideas with my son and he says the ghost and the zombie are the same person. He is angry and sad. Haunted and there’s nothing to eat. I’m not a storyteller. Geography is a cult. The cars here stopped running a few days after our last three dogs died on a movie set nowhere near a houseboat fire. Pretty recently touch is a way for the hand to stop remembering dreams. I tell my son before bed that sleep is the loneliest place. He doesn’t respond but in the story I have him say that we’re here to be godless. When he gets sick on an outside animal he's never seen, I look.
birthplace 26 The machine broke that was making blood Machine went everywhere Machine was found in the drinking blood New kinds of birds were found in the ocean Some of us were late we didn’t get to die (Old kinds of birds in god
birthplace 25 The violence did not survive the poem. I know you wanted to see god. My stomach didn’t actually become a star. I am not good looking and all this has been to say as much. Also, ghost, also. The angel’s diary is light on imagery. Hurt travels by not moving. Yes, they were nudes, but not until I put them face down. Someone had taken from you the only year you’d die.
birthplace 24 Swimmer’s ear. The far bone. God dreams of ants and surgery. I name a wrist but nothing scrapes mother awake. You’ll lose two kids and a garden.
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