take what is yoursand I will hold you as high as I can she says to man under layers of dirt and realitiestake what is yours
I will not let you fall.
I will be titanic’s piano buried and thriving deep within your atlantic,
cradling one birth passage after another.
I will be infant’s bib against your heavy chest as you drink deep the sins of stranger
madness – daring
to skin carcasses of satisfaction, flanking waterholes and battlefields
with breathless eyes with ancient anticipation.
rightnow I want to paint butterflies likeright
glitter across your
brow,
name you unspoken the great
being. Come,
invite you in, let you
sip my cheeks, my toilet. You,
king Raaja the great
cat. Come,
let me be saliva bandages, gauze and
s pli ten ds
perhaps our lines were meant
to be drunk- en sailors,
instead small Everest;
camel humps.
Come, &nb
the soul played as one flutei.the soul played as one flute
throwing myself out of the red, stranger muscles at your feet and so begins the erotic banging; a symphony of five thousand languages a symphony of desperate dying animals
Give me peace. Give me sanctuary. give me
flailing limbs pressing up against eyelids and the current of a heart hot and lifeless.
ii.
my relentless is moist. i tell
the lambs that with or without wool, with or without slaughter
we will stand here on this ledge with pride perhaps and we will &nbs
of carridesThere is a wolverine in my backyardof carrides
and he is terrible.
It's almost a Saturday, almost scraping the spring from our molars and canines.
You are predictable
and terrible.
My mother comes home tells me the hawks are the things to photograph and cry over and then leaves
because I grieve better in silence
and this is terrible.
I grab five jade eggs from the nest too close to the ground. I throw the first one up, watch it hit the pavement like an orchestra with a dead family member or y
I'm baaack
Tired
for give me
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