At night in the field, I felt the curvature of a palpabletime around me, felt the darkfoam of the waveform rise and collapse
It is easier for people to think I wanteda dick swinging between my legs.
It makes more sense that way instead of thefacial hair that came at the same time
Hmong people say one’s spirit can run off,Go into hiding underground.
Only the physical stays behind.
Dear friend, dear fearless reader, dear soft spot, dear drummer’sBackstage sweat-soaked T-shirt kiss, dear one sweet world-without
-End, dear if you find this, dear feckless, damned...
your name for purposes of identification
how can I when it’s failed
better a border made of water
harder to cross
each seed is different
like each tongue
how many heads
was the right question to ask
In the penumbra of an oak under sculptedMoonlight, we pile the last waking hours
On our faces, breathe the wilderness of dryHeat waiting for fall ventilations. It feels
I press my hand to your sleep.
Then I find your spent head under smallwhirling tresses
having digested the clatterof car horns, children
bustling into sweet shops.
the back of my hand and this neighborhood,which is devolving even now intoa semblance of Detroit. I know notto lead a horse to water becausethat won’t end well. I know my nameand to the mirror’s mute face
Chambers fall to splinter gravel.Leaf grows from my throat.
Walls forsake the crumpled groundIt is meant to hold up.
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In the end, everything turns outright, like the last ten versesof Job, where rings are givenin supplication and apology. Where sheep