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gold fish
I wind my hands up in ( Read more... ) -
Navegnon
In the bathroom, you slice your face again, the tribal pattern
that will keep the nightmares away. Your skin
is still healing from other days' scratches.
I stand close, without touching, watching the thin stripes of blood
well briefly on your face.
Over and over and over again, you insist aloud to no one in particular:
I am in control,
in control,
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(Untitled)
You talked about putting up plaques where you have had particularly compelling sexual experiences outdoors, a la Hakim Bey.
Then you asked me if we had ever had sex
outdoors.
We had sex outdoors three weeks ago.
In our neighbor's yard.
That hurt my feelings.
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I was afraid to say anything about it because I didn't want to seem like the girls
i hear ( Read more... ) -
cool erotic : a nuerological opera
i am carving a line, a sweet red line, a scallop of flesh ( Read more... ) -
Senator
I'm not sure how I chose him. There was no particular reason.
He was tallish, but soft-faced in his middle years, a man who could make terrible decisions
with ease in the company of friends,
but break into tears if held accountable by a child.
In a word, he was unspeakably vulnerable.
The Senators' breakfast was held in the Overlook Guest Ballroom. The ( Read more... ) -
nostalgia
i am now aware, aware
that the things i become nostalgic for
are already gone, and never-were
erasure, the simple kind
it's not political, it's just the dropping-off
of past selves.
boy. with your twig arms and sinuous trunk,
you are a tree-boy. i tried to think of what your spirit animal was
all the time we've been together, and i never realized
that you ( Read more... ) -
a poem for louisiana as it is again unwillingly transformed
i wish that love
was enough to put you back together.
sew your wayward canals + burnt bridges
patch the seawater spots in your vast disintegrating curtains of marshland + swamp
i have felt the hum of your thousand life forms
moving, chirping, as it all blends to a single oma warm and living silent sound ( Read more... ) -
Dive
Flapjack belly, young breasts ( Read more... )
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