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as light
shaped by trajectory.
a wind settles in the body.
Echécatl the breath, the flint & spark.
the house of prayers.
I am
when sounds exchange questions
when light enters the lung
when given
the noun: a variable absence
a law pinned to a quail's wing.
First appeared in New American Writing. Copyright © by J. Michael Martinez. From Heredities (LSU, 2010) by J. Michael Martinez. Appears with permission of the author.
there is always one more death to paint us an ochre without axle aiming us like a sunflower down a path a harp once followed to still the scythe before losing love against itself
A candle: presented in the water Shall the boundary: seen before the boundary: lift the law: To the end as may be: to the end as first the fountain of a lower key: the guaranty the virtue behind clarity which I make you: for this where neither dove nor crow has flown: As the now to ascertain, in the yet obscured: we speak juxtaposed: in the juxtaposed: without knowing what wills the ruins. This treaty shall be: this treaty shall be: the boundary see
The crisis crown. black thorns piercing. for of
inviolate flesh a replica of flesh. dioramas of bodies.
lashed & stretched. trunk opened for reverence. in
the thickening. death of the compound. noun we
are. bones bleached to bear. wings of dried lungs.