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... ... shimoda

poems
corpsify

us—prematurely

drain us
refill us

wit h
ancient humor

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A poem is a form of exhaustion—
boundless The body
keeps giving. The spirit

—mispronounced

+

shariden   an oven
left to cool
for a century

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Atrocities   distant lands

Then
standing in front of skulls

drawn into
opaque darkness

behind the bone,

standing there, I was contributing
too

the pile—
the tower, the temple of idols

to Mary?

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There is a white square—
I do not see, but feel
with my throat—

silent
at odds with
the small, amnesiac world

I’ve created
with my decisions

desires   errors
lack of remembering.

The white square hovers
parallel to the ground,

The sky seen from
an open grave—

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The skulls were parental.
rejected a chorus

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Did mushrooms grow
after rain? Did flowers?

Yes, one mushroom              cont.

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The longer I play this game

with military paper

shouting
through the wall

the more or less
ground

beef   I become

that eating
will resolve

looking long across
the high desert grasslands

+

aliens situate ama

as people   human people, hungry

I slept on top of a tower
and watched a horse’s Bouncing penis

I sketched the light fixtures in a church
turned into a light source

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Who dreams of burning the pagoda down.

Where it touches the sky
twin eyes   red mask

I sit below
a tree

The tree
cures my headaches

slender arms   victims

listen
to my headache   refrains

I don’t want to feel
my reflection   leap out
of the pond

and land on my back (my neck)

the fish
of my reflection

soothe me   small fish

hanging from the pagoda’s eaves

if you cannot climb it—
you have to bring
it down

to you

you
don’t have a broom
and are not an old lady

+

Surely there are people
you forgot—

when you saw them,
wasn’t?

+

occasionally I see the woman
frozen as a horse

like the guardian of her megalithic sentence—

+

corpse poem

Google Bks


Is it true?

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Where there is an inexplicable rock
the earth
rests beneath

it
is left

to fend for itself

how it chooses
to populate

itself
vegetation

+

The swamp hen

edges

the sub-tropical gully

like a drone

who wants to suck

13lack cows

dirty sheep

the prestige

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I approach the altar.
Fathers   always clutching,

wearing white   burying
their face
in their father’s armed; were

loved   deserved to be
visited   Apparently

I approach the altar.

dirt. walls
are cool. The sun
cannot penetrate. tails
hanging from timber
beams   A paean
to the missing

dead; the only thing that was
expected, was unexpected.

What place, where were we going?
I don’t see art, but old men
given everything
they asked for,
including everything they did not ask for.

Paint children blue
Paint children
sitting in

dirt, clutching their knees.

makeshift, beautiful?
She told us
where the dirt came from,

I forget (the mountain),

I approach the altar
The sun
Shines through cracks
in the wall
On faces of strangers   Materializing

cracks   the faces
of strangers

stops
are shining,
holes
in the wall

lizards, spiders,
mice,

strangers
assuage their depression ...

I approach the altar
The strait is behind me
I approach the mirror
If I can see The strait
I am Invisible,
will be fortified

Bridges
inside me

faces hang over
the rail

“in solitude, asylum, or restraint”

I approach the altar
The strait
in The back of my head

implores
the mirror
to be Stronger,

for the reflection
To decide?

The strait is a commitment
Lunar specialties

I approach the altar
   not sound
infects the way
I have been
thinking?

I see the sun in a piece of clay
I see yellow in black stone

I approach the altar
a woman rubbing trees Between
her hands
In a worshipful attitude

to translate The mild asphyxiation –

vice

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Someday the earth
will be the moon

beaten, abused
extinguished

and indispensably radiant
to some other life

“We would sweep the desert with a telescope.”
—Violeta Barrios

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I thought: hell in the crevice

where darkness is
collected

and harnessed—

People
mimic ghosts

at once,

but it comes out
as the mocking
of young people

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The moon was the hero
deposed

and licked, and made
to carry correspondence up
the long, arcing ladder

I watched it rise
out of the dark tree,

where it was young
and could not yet claim
humiliation,

then
appreciate itself,

it only meant (it meant only)
appearing
unadorned

but it was—bright
old fire

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The shadow on the grass (in the yard)
consolidates all the aspects of
the self   into one
black mass

the color of the grass
shielded from the sun

by the ambiguous body
pulled tight

where the sun is

a halo on

the back of the original

I do not know who I was
when I was alive (aka
on the ground;

this death does not resolve
the lack of knowing

the impossibility is
preserved
in the glowing

borders (edges).

If there is no sun?

Shadow   breath
warms the grass,


— 2015 - 2016