- A Sleeping Centipede Presence
A sleeping centipede presence
Chemically now
Appears atoned, bereft and alone allied
To deprive the lust of
A cannibal midwife
Penned ivory crossed ignites
Found in knots
- Detach Me From My Head
I think of you
in the furthest places where
light and your breath
feel like something I know I lost
as a child
when I was there
cold-burning thieves drink the sun
- did my absence follow me
"Did My Absence Follow Me"
I am in photographs with my
Imaginary friends in
Hospital
Should someone borrow
Leave crease-less view of the private parts
- i am erasing doors
A growing chorus of spores
Like shedding skin pried from the numb and
In them pain and clinical routines and scars
Hour hands slice open people then
Leave them bright, shy hopes for sequels and
Rows of leaders need our meat for their
Broken little drum
- Mouth Filled With Sand
The sound your face makes
When you're eating insects
Fills my mind
With relief
And your feet are still inside
My skull
And you're wearing my brain
- Polaroid Papercuts
A room With needs
Tight breathing walls And near
My life within And without
An animal breathes
In dust, In fear
A calculated loss of leaves and Years
Halls of meat and light
- the firstborn stands sedated
You lost and found me in these
Ulterior spaces
The firstborn stands sedated mine
A kiss too late
Benign good mornings that I cannot re-do
October sneers
Incised fore-warnings that your mutable knots loose
A sobering fear
- where all of these towns and choices end
I will find a book I penned between lives blank
Where all of these towns and choices end
Freight for annulled ships
Discreet lives claimed
A shared vacancy required
No recall of what harm brought bleaching time
- Your Candied Laughter Crawls
"Your Candied Laughter Crawls"
I bathe my mind in the forgotten lives
Of haunted names
Because your secrets sleep deep
In your open mouth
Where parasites dream
Ashamed and bulemic