Whatever enormous animal the night was was lingering. But the mind has the reason it needs. Then the butterflies, in their slight advertisements of paradise, flew, the piece in me of you. And the stomach grew legs and said, we’re going places now.         Originally Published…

        I liked where my hand was a moment ago,   but even this is changing.   They say the way January goes so goes the year,   and China’s market had plunged into the open mouth of a lily hiding underground.   So goes meaning, so slips mystification—   these evening…

            You nearly always wake in a panic, thinking the time has passed just before the alarm sounds, or the moment just before the highway exit appears you could have sworn you’d missed it a while back, or that impulse to drop, and much later to return to putting the…

  I’ll teach you to peel all the legs and thorax   in one piece once I learn   when skin is this fresh you see through the body   and notice bait bloating in the mouth   of the willing   we were always either laboring or are labored over   I’m learning to…

      it helps to think it’s a game a stone you find and shuck         but then how could you be this girl I knew a little dove too soon – without enough evil trying to shake the world’s grip as she falls toward the back of your throat   again    …

  she won’t talk about her time in Cuba or the drugs he cut into her breasts   right before the colors blurred passing through his hand like the gray chaos   of a sharp-edged edifice   but she’ll say the stint on the steamboat casino back to Miami made it worth it   she…

    we’ve come all the way from Oklahoma for locals to ask if we’re celebrities  No     she says     climbing out of the back of a convertible in a bathing suit with an almost empty bottle when we thought no one was watching      everyone was watching and forever meant…

      we played a childish attempt to baptize each other & found each other undead for the time being as if the ablutions were working but we’ve seen how imitation & daily use make for a placebo that waits as waiting is all a completed thing can do to replace itself like I…

          I could have shown you a swimming pool perky with turquoise light had we planned the last sunset right but instead I’m cancelling plans and taking the first flight out of Oklahoma because even though a ripple slows it never quite comes to stillness so I’m leaving this watch on…

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