from Terror Matrix
in paradise that i said lake should jump
into a you so how’d i miss the maw and
run from paradise into below the spout
and ride the rim and circle down the fur
where white collects to silver ring
before the drop the lightless part i dare
you not to think of abe while coursing
coursed half crane's hard neck no ring
to make it yield mistaken catch who
made his business sure it was a man
to scout another sheep to glut and slit its
throat and pay attention to encourage it
dakota dead en masse was news to me
persona split’s a genre i adore near
thirty dead beneath a cloudless sky as
sure as it was told to me online to pull
the teeth to put them back in place to
plagiarize the writ of sheep before say
lake for bloody grace to jump i said fill
me a scrip for this to raise the dead
From Terror Matrix (Timeless, Infinite Light, 2014) by Zoe Tuck. Copyright © 2014 by Zoe Tuck. Used with permission of the author.