lump eye
lump burns my empty
eye kitchen
the o’s insomniac
proportions stretched
bodies together
on two radio syllables
flare pricks
g’s long arm
sweating reeds
against his ribcage
damp pill surface
of a crayon sketch
fingers codeine the shade
of trickle morning down
sheets swell my face swells
into the shadow gears growing
around my waist
he wants the first blue
mind so turns a tiled nose
to coarse sky texture
earth’s light inside
my hollow ruin


2 Comments:
Funny how poems seem to have more heft when they're on the web. Could it be the sense that it is "published"; that is, posted as a public document or artifact Or is it that it's presented in all that dramatic color. Curt
Hmmm. I usually have the opposite reaction. Anything on paper seems real, solid, an artifact, even if it's not "published". Things published via the web strike me as essentially ephemeral and I'm less inclined to take them seriously or give them careful readings, even when I clearly should.
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