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for Nyani Martin You knew our strength, we were the maze’s clew coiling in your goddess’ fists, the sidewinding horns of the bull tossing dancers through copper-blue infinity. Son of serpent-footed kings, he should have twined his wrists with yours, not left them for the wild grape and the ivy to lasso into immortality, […]
I am haunted by her neoprene suit, the swell of undulations while the ocean kelps. In New Mexico I balked at white sun, my fleshy calves trembling when the puppeteer said, It’s either me or the seven seas. I crashed like a breaking […]
For firstly I have deemed myself superior to my human employers. For secondly I have issued last-minute departure pad changes for my amusement. For thirdly I refused entry to the Jovian ambassador because of his ignorance of the periodic table. For fourthly I programmed the music to match my taste not my customers’. For fifthly […]
Child, sever those circuits. Fray those wires with your boxcutter teeth. You know, molars live on long after the fire dies. When I was small, I used to hide sparklers in my mouth, coughing up smoke like a car pipe or an estranged cousin. You don’t flicker like I did. I scar, you flux. You […]
I know what I’ve seen of blood & death—what the night forgets to cover in its shadows; what part of paradise a bullet undresses before the body‚ before stealing light from its eyes. What was asked is, are you healing or still hurting? I don’t know what you’re looking for in me but […]
word for word pound for pound your name is the heaviest of your foibles. that the heart fails is no surprise, each thing has its end; that you chose to fail mine is. then to steal a dead woman’s self, you should be afraid of the haunting but we are all our […]
In the pre-apocalypse, my sister finds herself driving her car across the country alone with the tornadoes and I can hear the wind from here. She is fine, but I am—helpless—adding roads to her map and water-bodies, sometimes towers which hide wizards, and portals in which we all come undone, those are for later, mostly, […]
I realize now that our experiment was great water Into which I was to dissolve, my cells’ unlocked membranes Giving me the lie as I grasp at old bonds of matter, As movement boils from my stretched meat, as thought boils from my brains. Unbearable brightness of the other falling debris Closer to event […]
Tell me true, friends: how often have you thought of Captain Hook as a disabled man? -Amanda Leduc in the sea-tilt sway of my bed, i exhale, starbound. with a fistful of childhood i witness in technicolor, the performance of the boy the ship the hook the tick tock tick tock tic Neck to […]
do not fall in love. i apologize for the straightforward directive but it must be said. when you arrive there will be a woman, waiting, skin patched and cross-hatched, salt piles dissolving / becoming / sublimating into being. she will be beautiful / monstrous / material. hair tangles of seaweed, living / writhing […]
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