anonymous : age 6

to eat normally

and to look after ourselves

like wild animals

dew point: kafka

burst!

and swing

from silken thread

at once,

low-cost and locust

at twice,

not found or lost

a third,

dutifully read

not placed

on a wrist

but saved

surreptitiously

for the hangman’s head

 

On Evolution

whistler

merle and runtish whelp

whetstone blind, no sense of self

furl and cry to help

colonel

teacher, enlighten

your lungs are full of chalk dust

go play in the fields

sado (my own private)

 

prophecy aligned

an exile of my design

retired hurt, alive

pavemeant

second inch of rain – 

sibilant whisper, a dove –

glistenality – 

iris

snails billow below

star and sky, mirth, surf and turf

there is only this

delicatessence

in today’s money

adjusted for inflation

i’m bound, hung to dry

the bends

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we can do whatever we want

the coral summer