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Cinched belt tugged tight around the heart 5 or 6 aerial roots dangling A strangler fig Do homeless ancestors live inside the tree? Child of noise Hold the loosened ends You may miss the moon or fall in love with it Embrace ashes I too am far removed A thirst that wanders thirsting And I could never ask the name of the boy who died A baby boy who died but what could you do and maybe words hang in sinew and care Writer of dead words or living words and life's hammer Encase the host tree and erase it I don't know the folk songs on farms far from here The dead buried and gone To dig the grave Who dug the graves Darling The sea widens for you tonight and deepens
Swell you can dream more the earth swells seeds pop I glance at the prize eyes closed in the glancing It's not a time to run I wear soft shoes and it took a long time to walk here Insects nudge me in my dreams like the 5 honey bees plus the strange one Intelligent bee glances buzzing to say Let me out The fake lights confuse us confuses the source Worker bee buzzed my neck directly me not turning off lamps fast enough Please just open the door to the sun
Call capable
a lemony
light & fragile
Time like a ball and elastic
so I can stop burning the pots
wondering yes electric stove
She is her but I don't reme
mber remember
the ashes I obsess She said
I was obsessed with
(not wanting to work with
ashes)
Mandible dream
says the street
& ash work
because the scorn
and ions long
there I wor I woke up
in the overlooked dark
I work
do that warp twistingly
wrap the dead
Black and white like the
long-dead starved pet rodent
eating the basement
curtains and peanut shells
I walk I wal
I walks down sometimes
why the advi
abide the advice was
not "Fair better"
but "Fail better"
Auto dish soap
½ and ½
Coffee beans
Bake the golden things
Rust colors
Rust colors
Haunt lonely and find when you lose your shadow
secretive house centipede on the old window
You pronounce Erinys as “Air-n-ease”
Alecto: the angry Magaera: the grudging
Tisiphone: the avenger (voice of revenge)
“Women guardians of the natural order”
Think of the morning dream with ghosts
Why draw the widow’s card and wear the gorgeous
Queen of Swords crown Your job is
to rescue the not-dead woman before she enters
the incinerating garbage shoot wrangle silver
raccoon power Forever a fought doll
She said, “What do you know about Vietnam?”
Violet energy ingots Tenuous knowing moment
They say that you, a road builder
Had such love for our country
You rushed out and waved your torch
To call the bombs down on yourself
And save the road for the troops
As my unit passed on that worn road
The bomb crater reminded us of your story
Your grave is radiant with bright-colored stones
Piled high with love for you, a young girl
As I looked in the bomb crater where you died
The rain water became a patch of sky
Our country is kind
Water from the sky washes pain away
Now you lie down deep in the earth
As the sky lay down in that earthen crater
At night your soul sheds light
Like the dazzling stars
Did your soft white skin
Become a bank of white clouds?
By day I pass under a sun-flooded sky
And it is your sky
And that anxious, wakeful disc
Is it the sun, or is it your heart
Lighting my way
As I walk down the long road?
The name of the road is your name
Your death is a young girl's patch of blue sky
My soul is lit by your life
And my friends, who never saw you
Each has a different image of your face