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Dead Bird Crawling

words left unspoken must

turn to song

like a dead bird

learning to crawl

 

becomes the ants that eat it

pieces carried off like loot

from the shop of God

laid at the fat queen’s foot

 

those who snap your brain, nip your heels

those who have never seen these hills

those atomic archons will

die under the weight

of their own making

 

casually flinging ...

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First Poem For Isis

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there are so many

                                     in here now that

it’s easier to imagine I am

                     collecting them like cards

of cartoon characters                     til

they leave more lost and longing

                                         than they ever

thought possible

 

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somewhere aside my body or

             just above my head...

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The Birds When They Fly From The Trees

noise maddening      cracked turquoise            higher
                                                                          high
                                                                     high
     or thoughts                                    high            
birds with God's thoughts fly high
wings threading light                                    p              
dark ai...

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The Untitled

self-taught to be

thoughtless she said her medi-

cation made it impossible but it

happened I changed at first then I

tried to change    I drank a lot at the time 

missed possible memories of a life-

time 

 

it never came to that       they stayed 

where they were               comfortable   

the reliability of a realm we cannot 

conceive of

forever-never-forgott...

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Early Bird/Daily Morning Terror

the early bird

                        catches 

                                         the 

                                              wooooooorm*

 


                        but the late worm stays alive   alone

                           and the worm that 

never leaves learns

things d

            e

            e

            p

                             ...

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Mercury Part Two

Part Two: leave the living as they are

 

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we met in suits                     a sad interaction
to enhance alienation a comparison
must first exist  half-blinded by giant light she could barely speak and I
like a planetesimal in transit a spot or stain 
yellow in the helmet her satan smile still 
a ten tonne drill to an already quaking 
Thymos             an exchange of essentials
s...

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Mercury

Paer One: Stasis to Statues

 

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The elaborate craft finally reached the green pastures of Mercury where even the Trees day-d
ream of leaving the Great White Soul at the Centre    it cracks   streaks   that one Love
you lost      you could smell the scent of
Saturn dripping from her skin her light 
eyes like rodent holes   bones blessed badly
she directs the craft    her ghostly thought...

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DONE + OVEN

sometimes he hears a phrase hears a phrase hears a phrase and it's off for God's sake 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 the red light is off 10 is it 9 the number of ending 11 there's a phrase repeats repeats repeats no comfort in the glow of an active fire alarm just an optical delusion here's a phrase he poked an unloose tooth tight as a nun's cunt till it was bloody and he cried with dread because he knows he'...

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