We begged our children as bats To eat the insects of our existence To guide us deaf, lacking radar To…
Ally-dog and I rode the game trails out back, lights-free
In Lightfoot, Virginia Those child-bearing days Ally-dog and I rode the game trails out back, lights-free. She led. I followed.…
One fine day the Army will have you itching yer anus
Oh, sure, be as Ivy-League as you wannabe, Mr Rhodes Scholar but one fine day the Army will have you…
Truth is a butcher, son
Truth is a butcher, son He will have You, you Begging, begging For Lies
Daughter yours, bolt-action god ours
The breech, the block, the betrothal Your sunless daughter Our bolt-action god What’s done is done Inshallah
Joe, NPO
cloverleaving through the night cleaving unto what’s right seething is disbelieving: – they chickens , they goats – “don’t trust…
Sharia, baklava
Sharia-to-go All the justice that she can afford All the justice afforded by the lash Render unto her the word…
Yield thee a mantis of bother
We are hornets bred w scorpion genesHornet father, scorpion motherGuard your daughtersYield thee a mantis of bother
Alibaba’s 3 asses
Come! My presidents Go! You kings Bring! Your platoon forty of thieves Free! Get! Put! Strap! Your riches Well! Upon…
The rot so quiet
The pull So glacier The rot So quiet .
Bamboo refused the stand upright
Bamboo refused the stand upright Relief in the voices of Of birds and bees Who no longer alight .
Hackles in the twister
Hackles in the twister there She snaps She sails Her teeth bare .
Into the ship’s screw
The breach dolphin navy-grey Took her final purposeful exhale Into the ship’s screw, The whale .
Death of a family dog
The black dog Took her blue death in Stun-brown Texas .
Sparrow at a bullfight
Sparrow at a bullfight On that blade Dragonfly Alight .
They shall gaunten like a feral cat
salmon shall run no more bears shall sit their haunches eddies shall pass them by they shall fish no more…
Elephant, walk on by
elephant, listen for the change follow watchfully behind bury your dead gather sticks walk on by her bowerbird grave
Alibaba’s platoon 40 o thieves
Come! My presidents Go! As kings Bring! Your platoon 40 of thieves Strap! Your riches Well! Upon your albino asses
Alibaba’s cyclics, fire sale
Bring your night-visions for barter Sell your valkyries, rotor by rotor
Alibaba’s 9-volt brother
Remember the brother dismember: Up-ended him Suspended, w other wingèd mice Splayed against your nine-volt algae-green night Who forgot the…
Alibaba’s atonement awaits
Atonement like colorless unpainted stripped sun-bleached dawn like daughter empty wordless awaits
Daughters buried like dirty cicadas
Daughters forced underground like dirty cicadas
Hair-dressers and daughters
We shunt them retarded cicadas Back Down To end their days With dying potatoes With sightless centipedes Hair-dressers and daughters…
Like any poisoned goat
We shall excrete your brood Our haunches down Our knees bowed Our eyes screwed Like any colic mule Like any…
Madrasa-mutton, seared
This madrasa-mutton, seared Swing Sleep Spin On skewers run-through
Raised among pomegranates
We harry hornets to hystericsWe poison scorpions w their own eggsThis generation raised among pomegranates must die
Cicadas n otro sacrifices
Oh, sure, you salted cicadasWe scorpionsWe expect a yield We harried hornets to hysterics and a blind hate We poisoned…
Oh, sure, your soldiers salted cicadas
Oh, sure, your soldiers salted cicadas Nonetheless, as with our poppies We scorpions We expect a yield
The man w the moth in his mouth
The man w the moth in his mouth
The colt-leggèd girls
The colt-leggèd girls, never see the dawn
The heifers in curls
The heifers in curls See always the dawn, Bolt-on Spray-on Turnbuckled their pearls
Children that come without blame
The pretty brown-haired blue-eyed debutante in the walker: You could put it down to a skiing accident But it’s August…
Feathers from plenty war bonnets
We watch palsied pickpocket partridges pluck feathers from plenty war bonnets
Hats that hang like crimes confessed
Birds-o-paradise from brownfields stagger on broken heels, wear hats that hang like crimes confessed, like sodden cigarettes, like tin-snipped ailerons,…
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