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don’t break the line
avoid dehydration stretch
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that’s no cheap metaphor
allow experience to turn time to bone
horny layer
that dreamer’s dozen of dead cells
vicious organelles to form a barrier
form a barrier but hold it true
“Overheard3” Joseph M. Gerace. 2018.
for Erica
open your mouth
open your throat
wide back
straight still stay
ten seconds
let nothing out
not a whisper
done
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you will
not beyond
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in baby
comes to say
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code
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into monastery
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of joy thing moon
close who wrote
heroism also
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skeptic flight
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torment where tongue
invents wound and
flavor at arrow site
“Penelope knows by now … / the earth isn’t flat / and men sometimes get lost” Chloe Koutsoumbeli (trans. A.E. Stallings)
decade
playing
again
i must
love
this liquid game be
cause i’m playing again
stomach i remember
my
body hello i
am
down here
on vacation
chaos
result
its my baby
to
ruin
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ignored bull you
wouldn’t
want to
ruin
those
perfect teeth
you
wouldn’t want to
put
the baby to ruin
you wouldn’t want to sleep
so
i can party
sweet
soluble carbohydrates
a handmade moser crystal
old-fashioned glass
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at ruin
those perfect teeth
ignored
bull
you wouldn’t want
that
“To keep silent and act wise—still not as good as drinking sake, getting drunk and weeping” Ōtomo no Tabito
attached via ligaments
the helmsman who
helped your mother
into her tail for centuries
pairs off domestic pigeons
to brake and steer men
with vast attachments
to long lost lovers
lynch does the same
packing each scene
with centuries of fat and muscle
which formerly surrounded buried bones
the helmsman has rectrices
and is absent from the song’s brief, luminous life
“I don’t believe in masculine or feminine art. … The men are gone.” Agnes Martin
long-legged myotis
qui gatta ci cova opinion one
pale yellow ray of scapulae
if one would iridesce greed one
two three patterns emerge
one skin of ochre
two blood like blood
three one can do nothing to
embrace one’s poetess
hang a snare one two three
from the nose of a fox one two three
what awaits one there one
spiked leather collar two
three a black vinyl dress
one’s beard dewless skin
covered in iridian mess
“On the wall is a spot: the painter sneezed / … or dirt, / or is it a cousin back from the dead / yearning to touch brows. / The spot is not monochrome; red is with that gray. / It is … a cell beset by virus. / Really, I don’t know. So much business thins me out. / And now voices approach: they are spheres, textured.” Kleinzahler
direct pinesap sunlight sight recede
fundament unnerving receiver
function over fabrication consider this
future clasping scales study and synprecept
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developed neuroscientific union
of committee glans stretch the canyon tip
commonly suggests 95 percent in utero make art
in utero enhanced thought through thunder
between metonymy and metaphor innervated mucous memory
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developing through time with wine considered raceme
retractable boy fairly stretchable roots of pine and oak
man fairly stretchable specific developed analyses suspend mental
syntheses overstimulates unfastening copper cage door
Source: Kleinzahler, August. “The Interior Decorator on Sunday.” Live from the Hong Kong Nile Club: Poems, 1975-1990. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000. Print. Page 31.