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Begin with every swallowed word. Pile them carefully, as though silence were wood and humiliation tinder. Strike memory against memory until sparks come. Do not fear the crackle. Let your lungs fill with flame, not apology. Let your bones harden into ember. […]
1. before the world can take a breath, you move: you, the simple colors of your body […]
Half of us wish the angels would stay forever. Half want them to leave now. Both factions admit that angels hold mirrors to the abyss inside us. We too hover just above despair. They are winged, is all, and more beautiful. Being eternal, they tell fewer stories. We are narrative little mortals; there are hours of argument while angels […]
deep as a tower / was the kiss of my gleaming wildbeak / a tapered metamorphosis / rising with studded jewel-sky promise / caught at midnight with my baby / our romance spun tight like a key / night after night / it’s u tramping […]
I didn’t think much About trading my voice and scales away When I fell into the air and happily drowned: As long as we’re happy I happily said, air drunk Love mad— I continued, happily All the years after Keeping peace Between sea and land Ensuring everyone was happy Because I thought […]
Sometimes it gets dark in here, I need your eyes To hollow it down for me. My blood is sanguine, My heart, so steep, I imagine what it means to be Remembered this way. A dancing fire hatching Itself into a conflagration. I do not believe that I Somehow outgrew this body, because how else […]
They will tell you lies about wolves, My darling: that you contain just two And can feed only one, and this shapes you. No. Not you. You are full of wolves, The whole pack, tumbling pups, Grizzled elders, howling, nipping— You can feed them all. Angry wolf Will hunt beside nurturing wolf— They are […]
First it’s a girl, then the world with half the land greyed out, then it’s a cloud, then a curl of smoke with plush debris. First it’s fifty, then eighty dollars, marking the years after the first Fat Man literally dropped, then due to high demand it’s out of stock, then free. First it’s […]
after Gary Jackson 1 You’ve seen the video. Everyone has. The nanorockets swarm in golden hour sun, descend like a conspiracy of shrikes towards the fallout shelter, its vault-door sundered. I hold the gap, my silver costume shining until millions of explosions bloom red & orange against my body. When the smoke clears I stand […]
the moon sent me her daughters for safekeeping hard bodies overworked thrumming wires rooted in the corrosive vastness stars machine-like flowers cut again and again beheaded knee-deep in the serving oil petals rusted by the sunshine the control panel at the back of their necks tightly fastened they forgot to open up their marrow up towards their mother under overwhelming weight […]
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