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Pieta for Tala Madani
display in gruesome onperformance in gruesome atperformance their shadows minglebottom reach for onetheir shadows above gushfor one another ofgum pink above gushfrench’s classic yellow ofgum above unintentional ofclassic yellow constellation abovecan you see? theabove two men cansee? odds two menby the woman oddscome here to knowby the woman dancer’syou’ve come here todrip but dancer’s legswhat…
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Monteverde Vecchio (excerpt)
my panting heartmy heavy voidcapturing leaf smokecurls the roomwhile i preparecrystal lapped boysto value a buckeveryone i knowis deadi’m dead toobut that never bothered me none handsome sergioknows the hoary hourevery day antoni sneaks offbefore lunchto fuckhis girlfriendviolethe presumesi can’tsmell the rosein his long black hair sergio’s allowance twirled onmontellianapaneraibrionithen alonein darknessarrangesblack chrysanthemums
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strange bird / light bearer / glittering corpse
Wikipedia Poem, No. 981 begin: top left corner of the frame phosphorescent blue glowings take arms strands curling through the sky stream mind snow heart falling doubt dark seaweed insects fly away divide the sky follow: channel where shadow meets highlight white lily scent of riverbed brain the sun with its spear at dawn with…
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New Mexico State Gem
What is your name? Never know. Hunched, picked offa pair’a you—neither crow nor winch. A thinggod backlit in neon after blessing us with neon. And I know what it means as a poet to carry this heavy basket—faint mason, invisible stevedore, passage of time, neither good nor right. I am fearful for firm and misunderstood…
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Card Trick
look at those fucking pants effervescent zinc-blind icicles reaching toward our lord and god ugly three-quarter leather clogs the split-pea color of loose babyshit but man those legs she pulls out a snakeskin card her cowl and pendant choker all those attendant men know what’s up off to the right in awe of the godlike…
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Choose Three
if i don’t paint a head up top eyes nose mouth and ears choose three no one will be interested
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Diagrammatic K. Koch Daydream
Wikipedia Poem, No. 704 outcast cordial pale want the conduction alone pale and still bien cuit unperturbed exile elementary yet unplayable school dead feeling of intimacy this feeling wanted dead devotee over snowfall tumble warmhearted no returns o which place for the dead
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Woman Ironing
I watch Picasso work The granite blob of gray-blue Into a void, if I said this out loud He would spit in my mouth and Curse my mother who hasn’t yet been born Her arms are returning, an honest day’s work, I am quiet, Sweat, sweet black eyes, Longing, a gauntness as from a fountain…
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