December 2010
17 posts
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here i am shooting up your steel vein south to north
sleeping sideways, dreams dropping down behind
cracked luggage, empty clothes fluttering on signals
but i am borne on, a foreign body, a virus in this cell
& if i am patient you will take me where I want to go
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baubles to please our magpie selves
& smell of spruce for the wolf inside
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rip the day to confetti
wind
& let it fall all night
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here is laughter
here the broken gate
i remember at last
how to forget
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on some days
being without story
feels like exposure
to arctic wilderness
but even that
would at least
be a tale
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the house is filled with pretty ideas
they languish behind the fridge, slide
into the drain under kelpy mats of hair
& roll beneath the bed heaped in dust
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we can’t dance but still we do
stub toes
there goes the coffee
in graceful arc across the floor
its wipe up a penance paid
for clumsy feet and laughter
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and now we wander through shops with shelves bursting and surely there is something here to buy to send to give that will mean something to family to mothers and brothers and grandmothers yes? no? and so we stroll these aisles endless in their stockpiled waste lands vast and sterile and we find nothing because why should we when we only watch it build around us in uncertain towers of...
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you shine & i reflect
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the smell pipe smoke in the laundromat
& there is my grandfather alive
if only for the moment it takes to inhale
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it gets dry &
when we kiss
our cracked lips
raise bloody
cactus blossoms
ruby in our mouths,
our fingers
cutting chalky trails
across the deserts
of our backs
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from los to las & back
our losses were small
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they snigger, the birds,
at our oil-fueled wings
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you
are
always
swimming
in
your
blood
November 2010
26 posts
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