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Is there any darkness left
Inside the geodes?
Has anything gone unscanned?
gas station
wet fuel
giant scratch-offs
cigarette packs: rainbows
anthropologies of litter
candy
credit
two men cranking old slot machines
arsenals of soda
a beer walk-in
no air
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Never’s
Getting jealous
My life lasts forever
(Comparing evers to nevers)
I’m still
Work Ethic
If I die tomorrow,
I’m sorry I didn’t work harder
Should my heart quiet by sunset,
Forgive me. I could have stayed another hour
If my family gets calls about my body,
I apologize for calling in sick those days
But should I perish on the clock,
Please do not even mention my name
wilds
the customers bird
a sales tax forest fern
dollar seed refunds
trickling down moss
green as deep receipts
declined again the dew
waits on leaves for an
order that never comes
Clocking
I stare
At one minute
Becoming a new one
Do you play by your own rules, time?
I glare
I ask
Do you slow when I’m not looking?
And minute on minute
Unblinkingly
Time nods
Origin Story
Be screamed the Lord
What cut the dark
Its thoughts’ knots
Pottered Its esophagus a
Dumb yawning sarcophagus
(Them living tomb
Warm unseen cancers)
Infiniplite in the way
A well vomits brack-
Black waters forth or
Hot rotten birth rings
Worm these diseases
Even before designing teeth
And greed the Lord
Bored the nightness
Clawed for Its image
And tore in the walls
Of the abyss to feel
Its fingernails smart
All in that horrid gasm
Of pandolorous grief
Complete pain brought life as
If pain were older
Than God
yells
this privilege of an earache
can the talking ape
articulate his deepening
abiding love for the migrant
monarch butterfly families
¿
or a soft hand
full of tiger’s eyes
describe those impossible
oranges – the bright privilege
of a sour lemon wedge tell
yellow – or bats stand for
black
?
!!!
time will show us the
rigidity of have to
and of hurry up
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